On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 10:56 -0600, John Griessen wrote: > A way to summarize and deal with the wants of anonymous a r, > > is to create to setups of gEDA tools and distribute that way... > perhaps with suffixes on binary package names... > > And yes, there's a little organizing and tidying of libraries as already > planned > that we all want. > > The responsive UI with retained modes is one that's hard to argue against, > so that is one thing to add that is beyond tool setup and packaging > for "hit-the-ground-running" speed.
I know I said I'd leave this thread.. but am I missing something about the meaning people are associating with "retained mode UI"? "a r"'s comment: - responsive UI (retained-mode canvas etc), Did seem a little odd to me. We have a canvas (ok, we don't call it that, but it is). And by definition, the rendering model of a canvas is retained. You put objects on it, they stay. (As opposed to a painting API where we draw things continuously, and have to repaint when windows cover regions and then become exposed again. The latter is how X11 / GTK works, and in essence gschem implements a retained canvas on top of it. There are some bugs of course.. the occasional dropped cue or grip handle which would be VERY good to fix for a professional look. Did you perhaps mean to save the current session of open files etc.. on exit? (Like programs like ISE webpack and perhaps other tools use?). Spookily, Peter B was suggesting this to me on IRC the other day, and we dug out some protocol specs for the X11 session management. It might happen. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
