Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (4)

2007-07-05 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:14:53 -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote: I've added a (junction-color ...) rc keyword to the light and dark background color schemes. For the dark scheme, the default junction color is yellow. For the light scheme, the default junction color is purple. So I can easily set the

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (4)

2007-07-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:32:11 -0500, John Griessen wrote: I also like the convention of crossing wires like: | | ---o-o- | | If pins are involved, a simple three wire junction currently looks ambiguous too. The correctly connected

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (4)

2007-07-03 Thread DJ Delorie
How about a circle at a junction, and an X at an unconnected net end? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (4)

2007-07-03 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: How about a circle at a junction, and an X at an unconnected net end? X at an unconnected net end has good intuitive meaning to me. I also like the convention of crossing wires like: | | ---o-o- | | I'd like that to be

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (4)

2007-07-03 Thread Ales Hvezda
How about a circle at a junction, and an X at an unconnected net end? Actually for a while there gschem did exactly that, however, based on user feedback (at the time) this functionality was unused and subequently removed. Right now the filled rectangle and filled circle are controlled via a

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (4)

2007-07-03 Thread Ben Jackson
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 02:02:42PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: How about a circle at a junction, and an X at an unconnected net end? I like that. I even made a symbol with a pin and an 'X' to put on intentionally unused pins of chips and headers. If I could just drag a short wire off the pin

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (4)

2007-07-02 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Currently, an open end of a net looks very close to a successfully connected node. (Little red square / Little red circle). This can be confusing if the net is supposed to end at a place, where two pins meet. The situation will look almost the same if it misses the joint of the pins.

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (4)

2007-07-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 02 July 2007 18:09:41 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Currently, an open end of a net looks very close to a successfully connected node. (Little red square / Little red circle). This can be confusing if the net is supposed to end at a place, where two pins meet. The situation will look

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (4)

2007-07-02 Thread Werner Hoch
Hi all, On Monday 02 July 2007 19:53, Peter TB Brett wrote: On Monday 02 July 2007 18:09:41 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Suggestion: Draw connected nodes in black. That way, unconnected net ends will stand out. This is a good thing, since this is almost certainly not deliberate. Doesn't work

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (4)

2007-07-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Monday 02 July 2007 19:05:02 Werner Hoch wrote: Hi all, On Monday 02 July 2007 19:53, Peter TB Brett wrote: On Monday 02 July 2007 18:09:41 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Suggestion: Draw connected nodes in black. That way, unconnected net ends will stand out. This is a good thing, since

Re: gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (4)

2007-07-02 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi Peter and all, We could use green or yellow for the dot (connected) or red for the square (not connected). Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. BTW: We can't help the color blind in any other way than making the difference clear by using different shapes. On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 19:32 +0100, Peter