gEDA-user: Re: Wishes, bugs and misunderstandings (6-10)

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Like I said, here are my next five wishes, bugs and newbie blunders. All
of them refer to the geschem version 20060824, GTK GUI.

6) gschem and pcb usability: Dialogs should remember their size and
position. On my two screen system they always seem to be placed where I am
not looking. Seems like the window manager does not receive a placement
hint and consequently puts the dialog according to his preferences.

7) gschem usability: Some modal dialogs can hide behind the main
window. Thus it can be hidden but still claims focus on all keyboard
and most mouse input. The exception for the mouse is a left-click which
will bring the corresponding window to the front. This will leave you
with a irritatingly non responsive front window because the modal
dialog still claims all the actions. For real world example triple click on
an attribute ---> The first two clicks will bring up the single attribute
editor. The third click will bring the main window to the front. The main
window will seem like dead. Menus and buttons not working no reaction to
keypress. If you use your window manager to bring the attribute editor to
the front again, you will discover, that the keyboard input was used to
redefine the attribute value.

8) gschem usability: Hidden non-modal dialogs remain hidden if their
accelerator key is pressed. Thus nothing seems to happen although the
correct accel key is used. I often stumble into this with the
component select window. This window stays open after I have placed a
component but gets hidden by the full screen main window. It should come
to front on the accel-key [i]. 

9) gschem usability: The find dialog is modal and needs to be closed
before the schematics can be worked on. Is there a reason for this
inconvenience?

10) Feature request gschem: A way to show the hidden text for some
symbols only. Currently [en] will show the hidden text of all components in
the schematic. This bloats the screen and makes the action rather unusable
for a moderately populated schematic. Suggestion: Restrict show hidden
text to selected components. 

Any comments?

 ---<(kaimartin)>---
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Kai-Martin Knaak
http://lilalaser.de/blog



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