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Most "user" open source software sucks a hell of a lot. I am currently having a running battle with xcircuit. This program is supposed to draw circuit diagrams
by katz 18y ago
Most "user" open source software sucks a hell of a lot. I am currently having a running battle with xcircuit.
This program is supposed to draw circuit diagrams, yet it saves it in PS format! It manages to fuck everything up. The user interface and everything about the program is unbelievably bad.
Most open source software without a large market share is like that. It is unfortunately the OS mentality.
And don't even get me started on the entanglement of all the software packages. If I download a program to install on Windows it install. For linux the program depends on 120 other packages (a type of incestuous package relationship)
- kragen 18y agoSo far my experience with xcircuit makes it more or less comparable with gschem. I really like the fact that its save file is PostScript. (It doesn't lose anything when you save in that format!) The UI is really not discoverable at all, but in my experience the same thing is true of QCad, AutoCAD, and other software that does similar things, whether free or proprietary. There's a good xcircuit tutorial, and the non-obvious UI is actually pretty quick to use once you get used to it. What schematic capture program do you really like, and what is its UI like?
- katz 18y ago"I really like the fact that its save file is PostScript." Yes - it creates larger postscript files. "non-obvious UI is actually pretty quick to use once you get used to it." For some reason xcircuit adds extra pages without any warning - which forces you to edit the .ps file by hand. The wires also does not "connect" (i.e. when you move a component). The best would be Orcad with ps export.