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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 Oct 2014 23:03, "Brian Sidebotham" <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The re-designed layout us much more appealing. It looks much better than
the previous layout.
>
> On 22 Oct 2014 19:14, "Mark Roszko" <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Actually I planned to do this:
> >
> > Rename the netlist dialog to "Netlist Options"
> > Add a "Generate Netlist" menu option which does the immediate
> > netlisting with saved settings unless its the first time and theres no
> > saved settings.
>
> This type of behaviour would get my vote, although I also think it's
perhaps better to swap to a netlist button that is a fixed filename and
netlist type (pcbnew) and have this dialog under the heading "export
enlist".
>
> That's because there are other areas like this that need cleaning up in
the same way, e.g eeschema options dialog which asks you for the project
file to save the project specific setting to, whilst at the same time
updating the eeschema (non-project specific) options too! It's really quite
awkward to be asked for these standard named files in a normal workflow.
>
> > The plan was also to add a menu option for Annotation, a "Silent
> > Forward Annotation" which annotates with saved settings and only does
> > new items. Akin to what Altium lets you do.
>
> This also sounds good. Optimising the "normal" workflow can be a great
bonus, but it may take a hit of hammering out as to the actual workflow and
operation of these options.
>
> Thanks for your work Mark!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Brian.
>

Sorry for all the spelling mistakes, I replied via my phone!

Best Regards,

Brian.