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Re: CERN plans for Kicad

 

On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:54:33PM +0300, Vesa Solonen wrote:
> It seems that the big hammer is going to start swinging and that brings
> way more possibilities... Something to consider very very overly
> excessively seriously is switching the toolkit. Wx is gone. Qt5 is
> everywhere, also on Android. Has a modern implementation of accelerated
> graphics already, heavy industry usage and support, also commercially.
> Dialog layouts work on all platforms, labels and texboxes actually align...

Nooo please not that *thing* that is Qt. WX is already too slow to
compile, QT is even worse. And it needs preprocessing. And recently it
completely broke remote X, it's completely unusable...

And anyway I'm a GTK fan :D

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