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After some discussion a few days ago on the geda-dev mailing list I made this Gnome HIG compliant interface to the gedasymbols.org database.

It allows you to browse and download schematic symbols without starting your web browser, which makes gedasymbols.org much more convenient. In the good old Gnome tradition it also asks minimal amount of questions - my goal was to make a simple tool that just works and doesn't need any configuration.

First time you start it you have to select a local repository for storing symbols. The directories in the list are taken from the existing gEDA configuration files. If you use some other directory that's not on the list it is also automatically added to gEDA configuration. The code is even smart enough to show this dialog again whenever it detects you changed files in ~/.gEDA by hand.

The code is written in gtk2-perl and the interface is designed in Glade (I used Bostjan's G-Tablix as a working example of a gtk2-perl program).

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