On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 12:39 -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: > Hey all, > > I have drawn a new icon set for PCB. Screenshot here: > http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9031/pcbicons.png > > I am happy to provide a patch to use these icons by default - however, > I have a few concerns: > 1. They will likely take up too much space on low resolutions. Does > anyone do CAD on low-res monitors? > 2. Even with decent resolution, they take up a lot of horizontal > space with the default view. > > Thoughts? Comments?
For large boards (http://www.ssalewski.de/b1.png) I like to have much room for the PCB available -- so your icons may indeed consume too much space. Is there an option to turn of text? For pcb 2009 snapshot icons are at the left side, I think this may be better, because many monitors now are 16/9 form factor, width screen. It would be fine to leave no room unoccupied, i.e below layers icons, maybe you should try to propose a complete now screen layout? > > A couple other ideas I have: > * replacing the layer switcher with one similar to GIMP's (select > box with icons for visibility/locked) Again, we should not waste space. The current layout may not look "great" but it is compact, we have color indicator, text and toggle button on the same area. I know layouts which waste much room. > * doing something similar with the route-style switcher, showing the > line and via sizes in the select list > Please note, our long term goal is to have not 4 route styles, but styles associated with layers, so we select layer17 and have 4 mil traces, with 6 mil clearance, and 75 Ohm impedance for layer2... > I'm happy to do the work for these changes, but would there be popular > support for such intrusive UI changes? > > Please note that we have GTK and Lesstif/Motif GUI for PCB program. And: If we consider changes, we may consider giving PCB, gschem and related tools a more "uniform" look and feel. Best regards Stefan Salewski _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
