Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (2)

2007-07-02 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Second entry from my book of wishes: If a symbol contains a footprint attribute, the gschem library dialog should give a preview. I know, this is only useful with heavy symbols and willl be frowned at by the proponents of light symbols. But wasn't geda supposed to

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (2)

2007-07-02 Thread John Doty
On Jul 2, 2007, at 7:00 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Second entry from my book of wishes: If a symbol contains a footprint attribute, the gschem library dialog should give a preview. I know, this is only useful with heavy symbols and willl be frowned at by the

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (2)

2007-07-02 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, FWIW, About content: If pcb only had thumbnail images generated for every footprint in the way done in John Luciani's footprints index. The thumbnail images for footprints distributed with pcb could be created during build/install-time before run-time. Newly made footprint thumbnail