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[Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx>]

On 02/12/2014 09:34 AM, Henner Zeller wrote:
> Hi,
> Choosing components in the schematics editor is very cumbersome right now.
> (...)
>
> So I sat down and thought about how it _should_ be.
>
> This is what I came up with, see patch:
>
>    - interactive search-as-you-type

Hi Henner,

I just compiled eeschema with the patch. The browser is simply 
*awesome*! I sincerely hope we'll see more cool stuff from you :-)

> There is another feature I'd like to add in a separate patch: show a little
> drawing of the currently selected component in the left bottom corner
> (left blank right now) when selected with the mouse popping up the library
> viewer. I left it as a dummy in this patch as I didn't want to make it too big.
> (...)
> Of course, you might have suggestions - let me know what to improve.


Few extra features that came to my mind:
- footprint/3D preview,
- browser as a dockable window instead of dialog,
- possibility to assign the footprint on the schematic,
- and save the above to the SCH library.

This may soon become possible thanks to the DLLization work being done.

> Download it here:
> https://github.com/hzeller/kicad/compare/master...component-chooser-experiment.diff
BTW. Are you using git-bzr-ng or some other tool to work on bzr repos 
with git?

Cheers,
Tom