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Re: To-do before the stable release (wrt GAL)

 

Hi,

Great Orson, thanks. I will be making a board this week or the next and I
will test it as much as I can.

Cheers.

2015-05-05 20:56 GMT+02:00 Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>:

> Hi,
>
> I have just pushed patches to synchronize hot keys in GAL with the
> legacy canvas, so testing would be very welcome.
>
> As a part of the stable release preparations I propose a detailed to-do
> list to qualify GAL for the release. If you think I missed something
> important here - let me know. Please keep in mind that we are in feature
> freeze now, so only features that differ GAL from the legacy canvas have
> any chances to be accepted.
>
> - Toggle the active layer with 'V' (or via placement hot key) without
> PNS being active.
> - Tool to place the origin point for drill and place.
> - Keyboard controlled cursor (move the cursor using arrows).
> - Select trivial connection (i.e. a segment between two junctions); now
> it is only possible to select whole copper connection.
> - 'Delete' key should remove trivial connections, not individual segments.
> - Some drawing tools require 3-clicks to finish drawing.
> - 'Remove corner' for polygons.
> - Scrollbars.
> - Reorganize shortcuts so they are not dependent on the current tool (at
> least basic ones). People complain that they cannot invoke 'Properties'
> using 'e' or remove tracks with PNS active.
>
> - Bugs described in the bug tracker, but not all of them [1], as there
> are also entries that are not feasible now.
>
> - Last, but not least: documentation for the new tools
>
> Cheers,
> Orson
>
> 1. http://tinyurl.com/kes2pvm
>
>
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