Comments for EasyChem
Re: why yet another?
Yes, I did. Indeed, I used them a few months before deciding than the best way to draw press-quality molecules was to use xfig with a good library...
I sometimes write books (solutions of exams) with friends, and all of us think the same, that's why I decided to develop EasyChem.
The problem I see in all existing programs is: they intend to be easy to use at first try, kind of a quick-and-dirty approach. EasyChem would be a bit difficult to learn, but when you master it, you can be very fast, and with a huge precision. In fact, it's just like a specialized vectorial drawing tool.
Sorry for the long reply, but that's a question I really appreciated!
Thanks,
FX
why yet another?
did you examine another projects, like chemtool, xdrawchem and jchempaint? helping to improve one of them could be better than rolling one from scratch if you don't see something especially fatal in those.
thanks for effort anyways :)
Re: why yet another?
well then I hope to see *different* product with different goal set -- and hope to start packaging it for ALT Linux (altlinux.org) :-)
PS: sorry for a bit provocative comment but I was starved without any usable drawing tools for years and now they begin to pour... to the extent that it shock a poor maintainer a bit :-)