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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's not even undoable - so not only is it kinda useless, it's _broken_.

Please? It's so much nicer not to have to maintain this stuff. :D

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 06:40:07PM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> I wonder how many of you are even aware of DIALOG_ORIENT_FOOTPRINTS. It's
> hidden in the Secret Menu in pcbnew (the spread-and-place) one, menu item
> Orient All Footprints. The code hasn't been touched since 2010 except a few
> cleanups, and it seems really simplistic and useless to me. I was going to
> upgrade it to floating-point angle entry like everything else, but....
> 
> Does _anybody_ even use this? It seems utterly useless. I have no idea when
> you'd want to globally apply an orientation to footprints. Can I just tear it
> out?  :P
> 
> -- 
> Chris