Re: gEDA-user: gschem's new pretty menus

[Bill Gatliff <bgat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 21:09 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
>   
>> Peter Clifton wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 08:15 -0700, bgat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Are there Debian packages?
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> No, sorry - this is just work-in-progress development code going towards
>>> the 1.6.0 release.
>>>
>>> If you want to play with it, you'll have to checkout git HEAD:
>>>
>>> git clone git://git.gpleda.org/gaf.git
>>>   
>>>       
>> Ok, no problem.  Done already, in fact.  It built and ran fine on Debian 
>> squeeze with an amd-64 host.
>>
>> I certainly don't mean this the way it will sound, but what I ended up 
>> with looked visually just like what I had already with Debian's geda 
>> 1:1.4.3-2+b1 packages.  :)  But I'm not exactly a gaf power-user, so I 
>> can't spot subtle improvements or push anything very hard.
>>
>> I'll throw a schematic or two at it and see if anything "interesting" 
>> comes up.  I'm not expecting any surprises!
>>     
>
> Compare rendering of text, and circles.. they should be smooth and
> anti-aliased. The default grid is now a mesh, not dots. The component
> selector lists attributes in the symbols you are browsing through, and
> the multi-attrib editor will show them too (in grey).  Plus, hopefully
> the icons in the menus etc...
>   

Ooooh, now I totally see it.  Niiiiice.  :)

Especially the font rendering and the grid.  Much easier on the eyes.  
Makes my mistakes stand out all the more!


b.g.

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Bill Gatliff
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