Re: gEDA-user: coordinate systems [was: pcb crooked traces]

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 05:31:42PM +0200, Markus Hitter wrote:
> 
> Am 17.10.2010 um 17:16 schrieb Levente Kovacs:
> 
> >I think that is why X11 has its coordinate system as is; and that
> >is why PCB
> >developers went that way. But a CAD tool is not about CRT display
> >or image
> >processing. I think we should change it; it looks very awkward for
> >a new user, who doesn't know the story.
> 
> 
> Being a new gEDA user and fairly experienced with other CAD
> applications I can tell I couldn't care less. If one ever has to
> enter or read coordinates manually, there's something incomplete or
> wrong with the GUI.
>

I disagree. There are situations I can think of in which manually
entering coordinates would be simpler than using a "GUI" method.

I definitely think we sould flip the coordinate grid, but what
would that do to exiting files?


Andrew



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