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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's fair.

On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 06:37:22PM +0100, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> On 18.12.2015 18:16, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > Related to my previous mail, as it would add an option or two - Wayne 
> > suggested, and I agree, that the eeschema options dialog is getting 
> > stuffed. I suggested that I kind of wanted to rework the options system 
> > as a whole, but that's a big project, and organizing them has to come 
> > first anyway.
> > 
> > I can easily rearrange them, into multiple tabs; it shouldn't take more 
> > than an hour or so - nice quick change. How's this for a proposed tree 
> > of options? Each page will then be subdivided into simple groups of 
> > three or four options.
> > 
> > - General
> >     - Undo and Save
> >         - Auto-save time interval
> >         - Maximum undo items
> >     - Interface
> >         - Center and warp cursor on zoom
> >         - Use middle mouse button to pan
> >         - Limit panning to scroll size
> >         - Pan while moving object
> >     - Component management
> >         - Use wildcards in component chooser (see previous RFC ;)
> > - Display
> >     - Show page limits
> >     - Grid size
> >     - Bus thickness
> >     - Line thickness
> >     - Part ID notation
> > - Editing
> >     - Repeat items
> >         - Horizontal pitch of repeated items
> >         - Vertical pitch of repeated items
> >         - Increment of repeated labels
> >     - Field autoplacement
> >         - Automatically place component fields
> >         - Allow field autoplace to change justification
> >         - Always align autoplaced fields to the 50 mil grid
> > - Default field names
> > 
> > - REMOVED as they already exist elsewhere
> >     - Show hidden pins (on toolbar)
> >     - Measurement units (on toolbar)
> >     - Show grid (on toolbar)
> >     - Restrict buses and wires to H and V orientation
> > 
> ^
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I wouldn't remove anything that is accessible from the toolbars. In the
> future, we plan to go for wxAUI and make the toolbars optional and
> configurable by the user. IMHO all configuration options must be present
> somewhere (preferably at the most logical locations) in the options dialog.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
> > 
> > --
> > Chris
> > 
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