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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Ladies and gentlemen,

Here comes another portion of goodies for the selection tool. I would be 
very grateful for some testing/opinions/suggestions, before I propose 
them for merging. The newest changes are available in the branch 
lp:~cern-kicad/kicad/selection_tool.
From now on, you can:
- edit properties of items using the default KiCad dialogs (double click 
on an item or select an item and then choose properties from the context 
menu/press 'E')
- remove items
- changes are stored in the default KiCad undo buffer, so they are 
consistent between renderers (you may do some changes using the default 
tools and revert them while using GAL or the other way round)
- you do not need to explicitly turn on the selection tool, it is 
enabled by default and it stays active forever
- the bottom status bar is updated, showing informations about the 
selected item
- file modification flag is updated after a change is done
- pads are not changeable anymore, as it does not work well with the 
KiCad's way of handling footprints (they should be rather modified using 
the footprint editor)

Although the plan [1] is still not fully realized, the update should 
allow to design a PCB using mostly the GAL renderer. It may seem that 
there is a bug regarding bounding box of selected texts, but it is 
resolved in another branch that I am going to propose for merging soon.

Using the opportunity, I would like to, on behalf of our small CERN 
KiCad group, wish peaceful and joyful Christmas to the whole KiCad 
community.

Regards,
Orson

[1] http://www.ohwr.org/projects/cern-kicad/wiki/selection-tool