On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:55:18PM +0100, kai-martin knaak wrote: > This edition of "Bugs, warts and feature requests" focuses on gschem: > • gschem/pcb feature request: Automatically add a note the version string > that says which branch/fork/development/patch it was compiled from. This > would help to avoid confusion for testers like me. This would also help me. > > • gschem feature request: An option to renumber subsheets with the usual > offsets. That is, numbers on the first page start at 100, second page starts > at 200, etc. > Alternative idea: Evaluate a dedicated attribute "refdes_number_offset" > in the subsheet symbol. I consider this 'refdes_number_offset' a great idea. > > • gschem misbehavior: Currently, renumber does not honor multi symbol > components. The script renders all symbols with disjunct refdeses, even > if they were slots of the same component. I'd call this almost a bug. > It makes renumber barely usable with components that are spread among > more than one symbol. This is serious problem. > > • gschem usability: Currently, you'd have to manually call update component > after a symbol was modified with down-symbol->edit->up. > Suggestion: Please execute update component automatically as part of the > "up"-action. This would also help, and should be pretty easy. > > • gschem room for improvement: Currently, nets attached to dragged symbols > will go any angle. This is rarely desired in schematics. Instead pure > orthogonal style is almost universally used. > Suggestion: Add a mode to automatically make nets Manhattan style. > Make this mode the default. I wonder how difficult it would be to code, but will definetly help a lot. > > • gschem usability: Currently, there is no visible hint in the Options > menu whether or not a boolean option is active. > Suggestion: Add a check mark in front of the menu item like pcb does. Should be easy and helpfull.
Best regards, Martin Kupec _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user