Re: gEDA-user: Polygon and track spacing

2010-04-26 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: I'll keep that in mind as I work. Maybe I'll come across some good illustrations. Note that I meant pop-up help within pcb - we already use *.pcb files for many getting started guide and pcb manual illustrations. Imagine having PCB pop up a hint window which itself is a

Re: gEDA-user: PCB configuration skin

2010-04-26 Thread Kovacs Levente
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:45:23 -0400 DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: The lesstif GUI has a minimalist layout in order to maximize the amount of screen real estate that goes to the layout window. It would be nice to have the GTK HID with this minimalist style too. Everything can be reached

gEDA-user: Idea/suggestion for improving the gschem GUI

2010-04-26 Thread Link
The puzzled about the purpose of gschem thread got me thinking about ways the workflow might be made more efficient, and one thing I thought of is the ability to dock the dialogue windows to the main window. In particular, I would find it helpful if I could dock the add component dialogue and the

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Add line end to line type dialog

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Clifton
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 02:59 +0200, Armin Faltl wrote: Is it correct, that round linestyle is default because of its superior mechanical/thermal properties? - I definitely read this for pads and it's easy to imagine, that a corner more easily delaminates than a round edge. In the light of this,

Re: gEDA-user: Idea/suggestion for improving the gschem GUI

2010-04-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:25:59 +0200, Link wrote: The current design is good for people with tiling window managers, And for people with the luxury of two screens, like on my desktop :-) However, with floating WMs, it means you have to resize the windows individually and manually. It

Re: gEDA-user: PCB configuration skin

2010-04-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:55:49 +0200, Kovacs Levente wrote: Please note that GTK is dropping the tear off menu system. The lesstif HID still has this functionality. I use it with a dual head system, and it is a cool feature. Do they? We launched a little protest against this move a while ago.

Re: gEDA-user: passing parameters to a subckt

2010-04-26 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:01:56 +0200, Rubén Gómez Antolí wrote: Power electronics models needed: - SCR Thyristor - UJT - Triac True. I forgot those in my list, because I managed to avoid doing power supplies up to now ;-) - Etc. -v, please. What else components would you find

Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

2010-04-26 Thread David C. Kerber
-Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Armin Faltl Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 8:52 PM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem I'm here only for

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Add line end to line type dialog

2010-04-26 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:17:15 +0100 Peter Clifton pc...@cam.ac.uk wrote: On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 02:59 +0200, Armin Faltl wrote: Is it correct, that round linestyle is default because of its superior mechanical/thermal properties? - I definitely read this for pads and it's easy to imagine,

Re: gEDA-user: Idea/suggestion for improving the gschem GUI

2010-04-26 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:25:09 + (UTC) Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:25:59 +0200, Link wrote: [Adding doackable dialogs like Inkscape are] Just something I thought would be nice. So, err, yeah. Ack. But please don't do away with the separate window

Re: gEDA-user: Idea/suggestion for improving the gschem GUI

2010-04-26 Thread DJ Delorie
Hell, sometimes I find myself wanting a third monitor, I have *four* monitors, and no matter how many monitors you have, you always want one more... ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Idea/suggestion for improving the gschem GUI

2010-04-26 Thread Link
On 26/04/10 17:29, Vanessa Ezekowitz wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:25:09 + (UTC) Kai-Martin Knaak k...@familieknaak.de wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:25:59 +0200, Link wrote: [Adding doackable dialogs like Inkscape are] Just something I thought would be nice. So, err, yeah. Ack. But

gEDA-user: Drill file zero suppression

2010-04-26 Thread Ethan Swint
A quick sanity check with users: I've got some Gerbers and a drill file to review. The drill file (*.drl), however, is not drawn to the same origin as the other layers. Also, there are leading zeros on some of the hole locations, e.g. T12C.145F035S9 X-01Y-01 X-01Y01 X01Y01 X01Y-01 which

Re: gEDA-user: PCB configuration skin

2010-04-26 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, -Original Message- From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Kai-Martin Knaak Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 1:27 PM To: geda-u...@seul.org Subject: Re: gEDA-user: PCB configuration skin On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:55:49

Re: gEDA-user: Drill file zero suppression

2010-04-26 Thread Ethan Swint
It's original format is PADs, I believe. On 04/26/2010 01:58 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: What generated those files? PCB uses *.cnc for drill files... ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: PCB configuration skin

2010-04-26 Thread Jared Casper
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Bert Timmerman bert.timmer...@xs4all.nl wrote: FWIW, I have a very dim vieuw about this issue and would be very surprised if even a very very big protest would help (very very big as in more than 20,000 protests). For anyone interested (as I was), here is a

Re: gEDA-user: Idea/suggestion for improving the gschem GUI

2010-04-26 Thread Link
On 26/04/10 20:08, John Doty wrote: Please remember that features and capabilities are largely opposed in software. I would rather ask for an API that allows me to add my own features, rather than a feature that I'd like but would likely get in someone else's way. Actually, I agree. Let

Re: gEDA-user: Idea/suggestion for improving the gschem GUI

2010-04-26 Thread Link
On 26/04/10 20:28, Link wrote: (I'll have to reply on other people's scripts, because I don't know any Scheme whatsoever.) (And by reply I mean rely.) ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org

Re: gEDA-user: Drill file zero suppression

2010-04-26 Thread John Griessen
Ethan Swint wrote: A quick sanity check with users: I've got some Gerbers and a drill file to review. The drill file (*.drl), however, is not drawn to the same origin as the other layers. Also, there are leading zeros on some of the hole locations, e.g. T12C.145F035S9 X-01Y-01 X-01Y01

Re: gEDA-user: Drill file zero suppression

2010-04-26 Thread Dan McMahill
Ethan Swint wrote: On 04/26/2010 01:58 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: What generated those files? PCB uses *.cnc for drill files... It's original format is PADs, I believe. be aware that there are various combinations of # of significant digits and leading/trailing zero suppression which can be