Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Kovacs Levente
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 20:08:31 +0200 Markus g...@traidl.de wrote: Hello, currently I am running the actual Ubunut Version and the new Unity (Gnome 3.0) Desktop. But I am not very happy with the new desktop. I am thinking about changing to xcfe. What desktop are you using for gEDA? (are the

Re: gEDA-user: Layer selective DRC

2011-08-05 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Just tried it and it works great :-) I was a victim of wishfull thinking. Seems like I did not set the attribute successfully. As a result, the no_drc code path was not entered at all. I must have fooled myself with settings. For the archive: Syntax in the *.pcb

Re: gEDA-user: Option to not display polygons

2011-08-05 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Colin D Bennett wrote: Anyway, I attached a new version of the patch that contains diffs of all three files. So it should be working now. Seems to work great! Well, not all is well, yet. PCB insists to make all layers in a group to visible if one of them is made current. So you can't

Re: gEDA-user: Layer selective DRC

2011-08-05 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 04:32:58 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: The correct syntax is: Attribute(PCB::skip-drc 1) ... By the way, what is the reason for the funny attribute name with two colons in the middle? The source treats it just like a

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread John Griessen
On 08/04/11 13:08, Markus wrote: What desktop are you using for gEDA? Xfce on debian unstable ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Layer selective DRC

2011-08-05 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Unfortunately, current git head of PCB enters an infinite loop if the attribute is set correctly. The attached patch fixes this bug. Now, DRC does indeed ignore the layers marked by the attribute. ( I triple checked ;-) Well, it was working for a smallish pet

Re: gEDA-user: Layer selective DRC

2011-08-05 Thread Sparky
Levente Kovacs leventelist@... writes: If you add the attribute PCB::skip-drc to a layer, that won't be checked against DRC, and commections. Levente On Wed, 3 Aug 2011 23:56:23 -0700 Colin D Bennett colin@... wrote: On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:48:09 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Philipp Klaus Krause
Am 04.08.2011 21:33, schrieb DJ Delorie: just log out, Log out? Log OUT? What's that? ;-) How do you upgrade kernels? Philipp ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Layer selective DRC

2011-08-05 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 07:28:34PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Unfortunately, current git head of PCB enters an infinite loop if the attribute is set correctly. The attached patch fixes this bug. Now, DRC does indeed ignore the layers marked by the attribute.

Re: gEDA-user: Layer selective DRC

2011-08-05 Thread DJ Delorie
Yup, namespaces. Each app/module/whatever should have its own namespace, although I'm not picky about the syntax as long as it's consistent. PCB::grid-units grid::units etc. It makes sense for all of PCB's built-in ones to use PCB:: leaving other namespaces for plugins and external apps.

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Colin D Bennett wrote: But Ubuntu team promice to remove this feature on next realeses... I promise if that happens, I will to switch to Debian... and from what I have heard I will be joined by MANY others. I am already there --- since 1997 :-) It is the mother ship of distros, and the one

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread DJ Delorie
How do you upgrade kernels? Why do you think I rebooted 60 days ago? ;-) Mostly, though, I just update everything except the kernel. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Josh Jordan
I've had the same trouble with recent ubuntu release looking like osx. Debian sounds like a good alternative to ubuntu even without the window manager issues. Does anyone use geda on osx? I have given osx a good try and found it lacks basic features such as expanding a window

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread John Doty
On Aug 5, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Josh Jordan wrote: manager issues. Does anyone use geda on osx? Sure. Works fine. Of late, it's been my main platform for gEDA, since I've been on the road a lot, and the MacBook has a bigger screen than the Linux netbook. I have given osx a good try and

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Karl Hammar
Philipp: Am 04.08.2011 21:33, schrieb DJ Delorie: just log out, Log out? Log OUT? What's that? ;-) How do you upgrade kernels? http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kexec/index.html Regards, /Karl Hammar

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread yamazakir2
Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only EDA? I ask because I have tried many times to make the switch to linux for general desktop usage but can't get over the inconvenience of it. I have a linux box specifically for EDA (gschem, pcb, spice simulations, etc), so I couldn't

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread DJ Delorie
Just Linux. Fedora 14, for everything from EDA to watching television and playing video games. ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Павел Таранов
Ubuntu 11.04 on my wife's netbook and on my notebook (watching video, sound editing, Eclipse, gEDA, games) and Fedora 14 on home fileserver (svn, Jenkins, backups). 2011/8/5 yamazakir2 [1]yamazak...@gmail.com Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 12:35:38PM -0700, yamazakir2 wrote: Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only EDA? I ask because I have tried many times to make the switch to linux for general desktop usage but can't get over the inconvenience of it. I have a linux box

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 12:35:38 -0700 yamazakir2 yamazak...@gmail.com wrote: Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only EDA? I use my system for EDA and for everything else - regular desktop stuff, games, movies, etc. -- There are some things in life worth obsessing over.  

Re: gEDA-user: Design Nark

2011-08-05 Thread Gareth Edwards
On 29 July 2011 12:53, andrew whyte ajwh...@gmail.com wrote: Unless anyone can see a good reason for obviously biased gEDA users not to report this? The ASA's position is that this particular page is editorial content on a blog, and is not in their purview.

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread John Doty
On Aug 5, 2011, at 12:35 PM, yamazakir2 wrote: Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only EDA? For general desktop use, I tend to gravitate to the MacBook, but I'm not limited to it. If I need a lot of windows in view, the Linux box with two monitors is the machine of

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread yamazakir2
To this day I still am not sure why anyone would willing use a mac. I have been consistent in this stance for the past 20+ years when I was forced to use a mac in elementary school for the first time. On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:53 PM, John Doty j...@noqsi.com wrote: On Aug 5, 2011, at 12:35 PM,

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Steven Michalske
On Aug 5, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Josh Jordan wrote: I've had the same trouble with recent ubuntu release looking like osx. Debian sounds like a good alternative to ubuntu even without the window manager issues. Does anyone use geda on osx? I have given osx a good try and found it

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Dave McGuire
On 8/5/11 4:27 PM, yamazakir2 wrote: To this day I still am not sure why anyone would willing use a mac. I have been consistent in this stance for the past 20+ years when I was forced to use a mac in elementary school for the first time. I had the same attitude until they trashed the crappy

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
yamazakir2 wrote: Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only EDA? Yes. And yes, this includes 3D gaming ;-) The only thing I do in windows is to print a batch of labels for front panels. I boot winxp in a virtual box for this. When I bought the labelwriter I was quite

Re: gEDA-user: Linux Desktop für gEDA

2011-08-05 Thread Dave McGuire
On 8/5/11 3:35 PM, yamazakir2 wrote: Do you guys use your linux box for general desktop usage or only EDA? I ask because I have tried many times to make the switch to linux for general desktop usage but can't get over the inconvenience of it. I have a linux box specifically for EDA (gschem, pcb,

Re: gEDA-user: Layer selective DRC

2011-08-05 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 02:05:14PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Yup, namespaces. Each app/module/whatever should have its own namespace, although I'm not picky about the syntax as long as it's consistent. PCB::grid-units grid::units etc. It makes sense for all of PCB's built-in ones