Philip, Is this something you can do and want to do?
It would cost me a week or two to do it. I cannot contribute that much money to the project without compensation. We might want to explore a way to fund this by gathering funds from a consortium of users. I once saw a website that made this easy to do. Without coordinated funding, this project will only ever get what folks can do for themselves. This is a deficiency of open source. As a user now, you have to hope and pray (i.e. "wish") that somebody donates their time on an enhancement that you point out. This is wishful thinking at best. Your request goes onto a "wishlist" and may sit there forever, unless you have the skills to code it yourself. However, imagine a mechanism which would allow users to pool funds from themselves and their peers, and create a work order for a specific enhancement or bug fix. Then developers could justify spending time on the work order, and the requests would then not be considered mere "wishes". Is this an idea worth exploring? My current highest priority is to get usable zone support into the project. So your "wish" cannot be granted by me at this time. Not for free that is. Software ain't free. Even open source software cost somebody something. If KICAD is merely a hobbyist program, then I can imagine the status quo might persist. However, if there are businesses using the software for a profit, then it strikes me as a prudent business strategy for those businesses to consider investing in something that might improve their productivity. Dick Hollenbeck SoftPLC Corporation http://softplc.com
