Yes, this is soundly on my "burn for warmth instead of maintaining" list, but I think someone else may have stuck up for this one a while ago.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:43:50AM +0000, Jon Neal wrote: > In the same vein, what about the autoplace functions? I tried them a couple > of times just to see what they would do (really to see if it was worth it > to port over to GAL) and yikes. It is way, way too simplistic to do > anything useful and from the small amount I tested it has a handful of > issues with it. > > Jon > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:18 PM Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I just asked on forum.kicad.info. > > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 07:05:03PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > > I've never used it. Anyone else find it a must have? You might want to > > > get some feedback from users to see if anyone would miss it. It should > > > be undoable though. > > > > > > On 4/12/2016 6:54 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > > > It's not even undoable - so not only is it kinda useless, it's > > _broken_. > > > > > > > > Please? It's so much nicer not to have to maintain this stuff. :D > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 06:40:07PM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote: > > > >> I wonder how many of you are even aware of DIALOG_ORIENT_FOOTPRINTS. > > It's > > > >> hidden in the Secret Menu in pcbnew (the spread-and-place) one, menu > > item > > > >> Orient All Footprints. The code hasn't been touched since 2010 except > > a few > > > >> cleanups, and it seems really simplistic and useless to me. I was > > going to > > > >> upgrade it to floating-point angle entry like everything else, but.... > > > >> > > > >> Does _anybody_ even use this? It seems utterly useless. I have no > > idea when > > > >> you'd want to globally apply an orientation to footprints. Can I just > > tear it > > > >> out? :P > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> Chris > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > > > Post to : [email protected] > > > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > > Post to : [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
