On Dec 19, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Dec 19, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Ivan Stankovic wrote: >>> Is there any barrier to integrating gattrib with gschem? I think >>> I'd >>> be >>> happy with being able to pop up gattrib as a gigantic modal dialog. >> >> I had actually proposed just that some months ago (it was on IRC), >> but the idea was dismissed as unnecessary and complicated, if I >> recall >> correctly. Personally, I think integrating gattrib with gschem (as >> in: >> gattrib-in-gschem would just be gschem's attribute dialog on >> steroids) >> makes perfect sense. > > As do I. I've always thought that gattrib's functionality being > implemented as a separate program is a bit odd. I think there should > be a menu choice like "Edit all component attributes..." which would > bring up what we now see as gattrib's main window.
To me, it's the other way around. The schematic editor is a graphic tool, and should concentrate on graphics ("A program should do one thing well"). Attributes are text, and should be entered and edited by a text-oriented tool. For attributes visible in the schematic, the schematic editor should be able to read the attributes, but it need not be able to write them. A corollary is that attribute sets belong in a separate file (or set of files) from the schematics. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire > Port Charlotte, FL > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user