Hi Henner, I like both of these ideas.
Adam Wolf On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Henner Zeller <[email protected]> wrote: > On 20 June 2015 at 10:58, Henner Zeller <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > So I know we're about about get ready for the stable release, but > > there are two things that are possibly low-hanging fruit usability > > improvements, that we might consider. > > > > A lot of usability problems I run into are a series of modal dialogs I > > have to go through for common tasks, this addresses the ones that > > annoy me the most. > > > > I am happy to help working on the implementation on at least on of > > them if the consensus is that it make sense before the stable release. > > I personally think it does ... > > > > == Exporting Netlist. == > > > > Exporting a netlist is pretty involved right now > > - Press 'export Netlist button' > > - Get a modal dialog to choose if I want pcbnew format or three > > others I usually don't care about unless I want to export something. > > So just pressing the [Generate] button > > - Get _another_ modal dialog that asks me the filename to save it > > as. Which _maybe_ makes sense when I choose one of the export options, > > but not when I am in the workflow of getting a netlist out to be used > > in pcbnew. > > > > So I suggest > > - Have the 'export Netlist button' just export the netlist in kicad > > format the default $(schematic-name).net filename. Single button press > > for the common task. Down from three actions to one. The status > > message should just indicate that it save the net file with number of > > nets (right now, it only shows number of nets) > > > > - Have the current workflow in the menu as 'Export Netlist...' or > something > > > > == Annotation while exporting Netlist == > > > > When exporting the netlist, and not everything is annotated, the > > workflow currently is as follows > > 1) Press annotation button, press generate, press save (three steps, > > that would now be one step if above is implemented) > > 2) kicad notices that not everything is annotated and pops up a > > modal dialog on top of the kicad control application (for some reason, > > not on the eeschema), telling that items are not annotated and if I > > would like to do that. Select 'Yes'. > > 3) Then the annotation dialog pops up. > > > > I suggest to leave out the intermediate step and directly open the > > annotation dialog but with the additional message on top. This cuts > > out one click, and the distracting fact that the previous window > > popped up at a very different place on the screen. > > This second point is addressed in patch > > https://github.com/hzeller/kicad/compare/remove-unnecessary-intermediate-step.diff > > -h > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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