Andrew Poelstra wrote: > Can we use toggle buttons instead of radio buttons for the > route style selector? It would look like so: > > http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/toggle.png > > This gives more clickable area and a cleaner look, I think.
The look is still inconsistent. The buttons are centered. By contrast, the tool box and the layer lines are flush-left. I'd prefer a more radical change: 1) Make the route styles as user configurable as the layers. That is, allow to add odr delete styles, change the order they appear in the GUI, 2) Attach accel-keys to route styles. I know, we are running out of accels. But this is an important omission in the current GUI. Changing route styles is a very frequent action while manual routing. How about [ctrl-F1], ... [ctrl-F12]? 3) Add a little preview to the left of the route style name, that indicates the width of the tracks. Actual width in the preview may be calculated relative to the other route styles. 4) Get rid of the "Route Style" button. Its meaning depends on the currently selected route style. This is very non-standard and newbie unfriendly. Proposal: Move its function to right-mouse click on every style button. Ideally, this would be complimented by a config page in prefernces in case a user can't do right-clicks (e.g. mac users). This would also be the place to change order config accel keys or add more route styles. Side effect: More space in the right sidebar :-) To fully implement these proposals, changes in the internals of pcb are required. But at least, a GUI-only redesign should not conflict such ideas. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Email: k...@familieknaak.de http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x6C0B9F53 increasingly unhappy with moderation of geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user