Armin Faltl wrote: > I think your icons look nice, but as you stated, the text in them is > superfluous and should be in tooltips.
It should be text or icons or both -- configurable by the user. Text should be real text, not part of an image. This allows for a configurable font size and subpixel rendering optimized to the actual screen. This is how all major gnome and KDE applications do it. There is even a hook to get the config from the general preference of the user. Like I said in some other post: Make the icons scalable! > I see no reason to modify the layer switcher appart from allowing for > burried/blind vias. I'd suggest to do away with the check box in front of the layer items. The current layer should be highlighted by some less space consuming feature. Say, by a black frame. Switching the current layer is the most frequent layer operation. So it should be mapped to a simple left mouse click. A click modified by CTRL would shut off layers. This removes one of my favorite pcb-GUI errors: Shut off layers by accident when intending to switch. A right mouse click should access a layer properties dialog (name, color, default route style, layer group, material, thickness, comment, ...) While at it, the layer groups should optionally bear a name. BTW, current blind and buried via style shown in the Layer stack would be cool. > One of the most anoying things in the GUI is the coordinate display with > "35.4999" and "48.0001" ack. This bug is annoying. It is worst when doing footprints the GUI way. > Why is the grid size in "view" and not in "settings" etc.? ack. The menu system could use a clean-up for usability. The find feature is hidden in the select menu. > I'm very much for consistent handling in gschem and pcb, esp. the mouse > button for panning. Me too. Add to it consistent keyboard shorts. Yes, I know, these can be tweaked with config files for both apps. However, I hesitate to deviate too much from the default. I teach geda/pcb to newbies, who have the default installed on their local boxes. > What the... is the bu... with "Request for bounding box of unsupported > type 1024" if one is going to move the refdes of a part (inadvertently ), I never came across this. Can you give a more detailed instruction on how to trigger the warning? >> A couple other ideas I have: >> * replacing the layer switcher with one similar to GIMP's (select box >> with icons for visibility/locked) The current shaded buttons of invisible layers are perfectly fine with me. >> * doing something similar with the >> route-style switcher, showing the line and via sizes in the select list That would receive a warm a welcome by me. To be able to check the essentials of the current route style at a glance would be great. >> but would there be popular support for such intrusive UI changes? If it were me, I'd suggest even more intrusive changes. From the top of my head: * icon bars, that can be docked or even moved outside the main window * icon bars that can be user configured. * simple keyboard input to move and place actions * a more powerful find action * a find-and-replace action * a GUI way to more control on DRC rules * a GUI way to FreeRotate * a GUI ways to non 90° arcs * a button or menu item to recalculate polygons * a handles at the polygon corners * a way to highlight the "current" object * automatic recalculation of rats. Ok, I stop before I enter pipe dream mode. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
