Re: gEDA-user: gEDA-dev: "In Use" symbol list in component selector

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 10:17 +0200, Ivan Stankovic wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:46:59PM +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> This is very useful, I've had it on my todo list but never really
> started coding. Actually, I was planning to implement the
> "Frequently used symbols sidebar" feature, as described on
> http://geda.seul.org/gsoc/projects.html. 
> 
> The way I imagined it, we would have a (dockable?) sidebar with the
> symbols in use, like so:
> 
>  _________
> |         |
> | symbol  |
> |  list   |
> |_________|
> |         |
> | preview |
> | widget  |
> |_________|
> 
> We could even have the whole component selector embedded
> in the sidebar, for even easier access. Of course, the sidebar
> should be easy to show/hide/dock. Note that I'm not proposing
> removing the component selection dialog; it would still be 
> just an 'i' key away.

I did the preliminaries of that last summer, looking to go towards a
dock-able toolbar approach. This was before the current re-write of the
component selector though, so the patch would be no good. The idea
seemed sound though, and a side-bar with recently used symbols is how
some other programs do things (and how users may be familiar with).

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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