(Not so) Crazy idea? : Integrate Fritzing into Gnome Dia
I recently switched to using Dia for creating nice drawings.
From a perspective of reusing good and mature technology i wondered if solving a number of rather primitive drawing techniques not implemented yet in Fritzing like snap to grid etc, why not integrate the idea of Fritzing into Dia?
Dia has solved a lot of those drawing techniques and they both share the XML paradigma , so merging those technologies could boost productivity.
I like the Fritzing way of prototyping and sketching a design idea, but the libray and drawing techniques are rather (ahem) limited and fixing them seems a slow process. Dia has them and more and that could solve a lot of those drawing problems.
Dia is also Open Source (GPL 2) and also supports the multiplatform paradigma so that should be no problem.
And it's also German based :-)
Cheers
MaBerY
Hi MaBerY,
Thanks for the suggestion.
However, Dia is built on GTK+ and Fritzing is built on Qt, so a full integration would require a complete rewrite of Fritzing.
It's possible we could borrow some specific techniques from Dia, but the issue of aligning to grid has little to do with graphical technique and is mostly to do with finding all the little corners of the UI that will be affected by the change.
- j
Ok ! I can understand that.
So it was a crazy idea after all :-)
Also I think I discovered a major fault in DIA/GTK+ not being able to rotate a shape arg!! Still wonder why I missed that feature in the first place after using it for a while.
I think that might be the biggest showstopper after all for PCB design IMHO
Case Closed :-)
- M
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