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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lorenzo,
I completely agree with you. What I can say is that when I converted
the gazillion icons from the old set I went through periods in which I
could not stand looking at an icon any longer and I remember all these
place hierarchical label icons set being in one of those periods.

I propose the following:
- I come up with few new icons based on your suggestions
- you dig out the code and modify it so that the "Place a junction"
gets put below the "place a no connect flag" icon.

what do you think?

cheers
Fabrizio


On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio
<l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK, I'm using  eeschema for years yet I *still* pick the wrong tool, so
> there's something wrong from an intuitive point of view :D
>
> I'm talking about the 'place label' family of tools; what's wrong with
> them? the icon is misleading since it represents *another* kind of
> label.
>
> >From top to bottom we have:
>
> - Place local label: OK, text over wire
>
> - Place global label: WRONG, it looks like a hier label (mostly since
>  text is over port, not beside); a global label has the text *inside*
>  the port (at least in eeschema!)
>
> - Place junction is somewhat misplaced, it should go near the wire tool
>  or the no connect;
>
> - Place hier label: WRONG since it look like the place pin in sheet;
>  a more suitable icon would be the current one for global label (or
>  better yet, with the text beside the port)
>
> - Create sheet: OK, fine
>
> - Place pin in sheet: it's drawn as a component pin, a better icon would
>  be the current for place hier label
>
>
>
> --
> Lorenzo Marcantonio
> Logos Srl
>
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