Re: gEDA-user: gEDA schematic footprints

[Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 14:23 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Stefan Salewski wrote:
> 
> >> You just hit a major weakness of the geda-pcb work-flow. There is not
> >> much in the tools to aid the selection.
> > 
> > This is true, but we should say that this is in first order a problem
> > for beginners.
> 
> I disagree with this statement. The lack of footprint choosing aids is 
> annoying, even with a fair amount of projects under the belt. I work with 
> geda almost every day and made all the symbols and footprints I use. Still, 
> I find myself scratching my head when it comes to choosing the footprint of 
> some not so common component. 

Yes. Of course a better solution for footprint selection would be fine.
But I do not miss it too much. Beginners may miss that feature very
much, I can understand that desire.  




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