gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Just got fooled by the classic solder/component vs top/bottom, again. It just won't stick with me, that solder is supposed to be a synonym to top. I addressed the issue before about a year ago: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/31354/focus=31356 Consensus seemed to be that

Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread DJ Delorie
It just won't stick with me, that solder is supposed to be a synonym to top. Good, because solder is a synonym for bottom. ;-) Still unhappy with moderation of geda-user. Why? Because it is completely intransparent. Please do not mix your political agenda with technical questions.

Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 01:24:51AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Just got fooled by the classic solder/component vs top/bottom, again. It just won't stick with me, that solder is supposed to be a synonym to top. I addressed the issue before about a year ago:

Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 08:47:36PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Still unhappy with moderation of geda-user. Why? Because it is completely intransparent. Please do not mix your political agenda with technical questions. In Kai's defense, his message was in his signature, which is clearly

Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 01:24:51 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: Just got fooled by the classic solder/component vs top/bottom, again. It just won't stick with me, that solder is supposed to be a synonym to top. DJ's clarification aside, I would vote for top/bottom, with each

Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread John Griessen
On 09/18/2011 07:56 PM, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: DJ's clarification aside, I would vote for top/bottom, with each of those symbolically being placed in the list. That is, for an 8-layer default: Top, Layer 2, Layer 3, ..., Layer 7, Bottom +1 JG

Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread DJ Delorie
DJ's clarification aside, I would vote for top/bottom, with each of those symbolically being placed in the list. That is, for an 8-layer default: Top, Layer 2, Layer 3, ..., Layer 7, Bottom +1 You're +1'ing something we already have, and not what Kai was taking about. From the user's

Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread John Griessen
On 09/18/2011 08:16 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: You're +1'ing something we already have, Whoops. On 09/18/2011 08:16 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: So... go get the release and test it OK. There's another unfinished/overdue project on my to do list... I will attempt to swap sleep/insomnia for executing

Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
DJ Delorie wrote: From the user's point of view, we use top/bottom [hopefully] consistently. There are at least three places in the GTK-GUI that still expose solder/component: a) The first item on the left in the status line, which gives a hint on the side the canvas shows. (patch

Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread John Griessen
On 09/18/2011 09:01 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: This patch replaces component and solder in the leftmost item of the status line of the GTK HID with top and bottom. Thanks for work to improve the GUI Kai-Martin. JG ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: solder/component -- top/bottom ?

2011-09-18 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: b) The names of the copper groups in File - Preferences - Groups c) The help text in File - Preferences - Info patch atttached for the preference dialog ---)kaimartin(--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak, Email: k...@familieknaak.de