> > gschem and pcb havedifferent user interfaces, which you have to > > learn. > > Yup.
I've wondered in the past.. would people (users / developers) object to making the GTK HID for PCB more in line with gschem's GTK UI. (Or vica versa) I already ported a similar looking footprint selector (reusing some code), and the file-quit dialog. Little things... like the message / log window dialogs could be made more similar, and it might have an effect. I'm not quite sure how we'd get round the key-bindings, but perhaps one idea would be to ship two (or four) sets. PCB: (classic PCB / gEDA like), or gEDA: (classic gEDA / PCB like). Clearly if we did this, a brand new install ought to default to a coherent set. I'd like to see shared code (or at least.. shared appearance) when we come to sort out toolbar icons in gschem and PCB in the future. If we had to nail down what it is about gEDA and PCB which make them feel like different applications, what is it? Keybindings? (those are the ones which trip me up moving between them) Colours? Grid style / behaviour as it zooms? Zoom style? (about point / warp to centre) Graphic style of toolbar icons? Dialogs? Menus? Object selection styles? Side note.. why doesn't the lack of anti-aliasing in PCB bug me like it did in gschem? Is it that text legibility in schematics is more important, and schematics typically have narrower line features on screen? -- 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
