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Re: [PATCH] Eeschema: reorganize options, step 1

 

This is a nice first pass.  It certainly is less cluttered.

On 12/19/2015 10:42 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> Okay, here's my first patch (hopefully of a series) to reorganize 
> options, for your consideration. Some screenshots:
> 
> https://misc.c4757p.com/eeschema_options_1.png
> https://misc.c4757p.com/eeschema_options_2.png
> https://misc.c4757p.com/eeschema_options_3.png
> https://misc.c4757p.com/eeschema_options_4.png
> 
> Splitting up the options like that makes it a lot easier to read through 
> them, in my opinion. Also, it opened up the mnemonic space so that 
> _every_ item could have a non-clashing keyboard mnemonic assigned.
> 
> As the next step, I'd like to move the hotkeys dialog into here as a 
> container in the Controls tab. Thoughts?

Sounds reasonable.

> 
> After that I'd like to go further and tidy up the settings in pcbnew in 
> a similar way. That's a harder task, particularly considering the mess 
> that is the disparate legacy and GAL settings. I'll have to give that 
> one some thought and mailing-list consideration.
> 
> --
> Chris
> 
> 
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