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Re: Librecad on RasPiOS

From The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: Librecad on RasPiOS
Date 2026-06-26 10:05 +0100
Organization A little, after lunch
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On 26/06/2026 03:01, rbowman wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:32:37 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:01:58 GMT, Scott Alfter wrote:
>>
>>> KiCad has fairly comprehensive symbol and footprint libraries.
>>
>> They are the ones still insisting they want application-level control
>> over window layout, aren’t they. Which is why they hate Wayland, and are
>> resisting the move to it kicking and screaming.
> 
> https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/2070211673177399545
> 
> More about xfwl4:
> 
> https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html
> 
> I worked with X11/Motif for years. Were I still doing so I would hate
> Wayland too.  Sooner or later you would have to reach far down into the
> stack to do the sort of thing the Wayland developers consider bad, bad,
> bad.
> 
> I wish Tarricone all the best for his Rust project.

I think there is a lot of 'I want do it this way and Wayland cant'
Without the concomitant 'why on earth are you doing it that way?' and
'because that's the only way you can in X windows'.

I have an oil fired range stove and oven.
If I want to reduce the heat on a saucepan I prop it up on three pennies 
arranged in a triangle.

Imagine doing that on an induction hob...

-- 
"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow witted 
man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest 
thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly 
persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid 
before him."

    - Leo Tolstoy

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Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-22 16:36 +0000
  Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> - 2026-06-22 18:56 +0100
    Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-22 19:33 +0000
      Re: Librecad on RasPiOS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-22 20:18 +0000
        Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-22 21:20 +0000
          Re: Librecad on RasPiOS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-22 23:29 +0000
          Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-23 08:29 +0100
      Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> - 2026-06-22 22:48 +0100
  Re: Librecad on RasPiOS 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jmj@energokod.gda.pl> - 2026-06-22 20:11 +0200
    Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-22 23:01 +0100
    Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-22 23:55 +0000
      Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Nomad <nomad@the.desert.invalid> - 2026-06-23 07:01 +0000
        Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-23 11:59 +0000
          Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-24 21:42 +0000
  Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-22 20:19 +0100
    Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-22 20:31 +0000
      Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-22 22:55 +0100
        Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-22 22:48 +0000
        Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-23 00:20 +0000
          Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-23 03:57 +0000
            Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-23 12:10 +0000
              Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-23 13:28 +0100
              Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-24 01:08 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-24 13:52 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-24 16:43 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-26 14:43 +0000
          Re: Librecad on RasPiOS RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2026-06-23 04:28 +0000
            Re: Librecad on RasPiOS bp@www.zefox.net - 2026-06-23 12:25 +0000
        Re: Librecad on RasPiOS RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2026-06-23 04:22 +0000
          Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-23 07:21 +0000
            Re: Librecad on RasPiOS RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2026-06-23 08:19 +0000
              Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-23 10:23 +0100
              Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-24 01:10 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-24 13:26 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-24 13:44 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2026-06-25 16:01 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-25 17:05 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-25 23:32 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-26 02:01 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-26 10:05 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-26 17:51 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-26 21:51 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2026-06-26 20:22 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-24 21:59 +0000
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-25 14:24 +0100
                Re: Librecad on RasPiOS Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-06-25 23:31 +0000

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