[Ktechlab-devel] New guy <--

[Glen]

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Hi there all. I just discovered ktechlab yesterday as an option to
install into a Ubuntu system.

This looks like... it has a TON of promise. I love the real-time
oscilloscope and the simple way of dragging a component and hooking it up.

I've been reading the archives and I'm glad it's been resurrected from
the dead. I *also* want to get vacuum tube / valve diodes, triodes, and
pentodes implemented ;) I'm pursuing simulation of analog audio circuits
and while I realize that this is not the main thrust of ktechlab, this
is the easiest to use program I've run across yet. It's worth expanding
and developing.. who knows? It could become the standard in the future
once it's been refactored, ported to the relevant architectures, freed
up from hard-coded components, extensibility has been added, etc. The
rest of the EDA stuff on GNU/Linux systems, like gEDA, are a nasty pain
to use.

I've got some C++ background mostly in QT3, a bit of OGL, and I'm a
professional tech doc writer for a living who is very impatient with
software so I tend to simplify the interfaces I write to the bare
minimum while remaining complete. I'd love to contribute; this is a
sweet-looking project.

So the question is, what should I do and where should I start?

Incidentally, would there be any plans to implement free-rotation, so
that the diodes in my bridge rectifier can actually be placed in the way
they are normally drawn on a schem? gschem doesn't do it and I think
qucs doesn't either.

- --Glen
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