>Turning off auto-DRC-checking is the only way that I was able to >successfully connect pins by hand, at all.
You must not have had any rats nest turned on. >The inability to edit traces after their drawn, however, is maddening. Let's see, you can insert points, delete points, move lines, move line endpoints, change the thickness,what layer it's on, and how much it clears through polygons or delete it. You can do this by segements and with a little more trouble by whole nets. Before we moved to gtk it was very easy to bind a script to a single key that would for example increase the thickness of all lines on net by 1 mil. Now it seems like you have to recompile to do that. >And moving parts once they've touched a trace is infuriating -- no matter >what I do, it drags all the trace endpoints with it! Sounds like you should turn off "enable rubberband mode" in the settings menu since you don't like it. While you're at it maybe you want total freedom on your line directions by enabling all-direction lines. It is certainly worth a few minutes time to learn to use the keyboard operations like "s" for increasing the size of something on screen. Learning to use the arrow tool is also a good idea. And you will probably be happier with a really fine grid.
