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Subject: Re: [geda-user] New experimental netlist features
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On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 10:46 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Sep 4, 2015, at 5:02 AM, Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> I think the secret is to make the GUI-only workflow for the usual
>> schematics -> pcb -> Gerbers task complete. With orange and/or xgsch2pcb
>> we're almost there, so let's do the final touches. Tutorials should be
>> replaced with ones using GUI tools only. 90% of potential newbies don't
>> even try when they see a tutorial which asks to type commands. Having
>> the GUI workflow, the name of the underlying tool matters a lot less.
>
> This makes no sense to me. The users you’re targeting are not what gEDA is architected to serve. Why would they want gEDA over kiCAD? Shouldn’t we be promoting our strengths? Gnetlist is the unique, powerful, core of gEDA. Why hide it away?

I also agree with John. For all the reasons he and Igor2 mentioned.

Users should have a choice between
1. kicad, a GUI centric integrated tool that has limited workflows but
intuitive control
2. geda, a suite of tools where the user decides basically everything
and hence has to understand more of what they are doing.

We have the user base we do because we are catering to that audience.
Why alienate our users and put ourselves in a kind of competition with
kicad. We are better off being great out our niche than trying to
dethrone them from theirs.

I believe that what holds back geda is not architecture issues but
community ones.

> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
>
>
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