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[Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

What are your use cases? It is likely I am missing something, and I do
not want to make decisions basing only on my preferences.

I agree it is a common thing to have a GND zone on both sides of a
board, so they could be created by drawing one zone and then duplicating
it to the other side. The thing is, such operation is usually done once
per design, but it always shows up in the menu.

I think it used be much more useful when there was no Duplication tool.
Now two operations (duplicate & edit properties) are replaced with
'duplicate zone onto layer', saving you maybe 2 clicks per design. I
wonder if this kind operation deserves its own menu entry.

Regards,
Orson

On 02/09/2017 05:10 PM, Marcos Chaparro wrote:
> Just as sidenote, that is the zone feature I use the most :)
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Marcos
> 
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I committed the patch just to remove any potential 'this is not
>> available in GAL' complaints, but IMHO this particular feature is
>> needless and clutters the menu.
>>
>> The code itself is obviously fine, I am just considering the value of
>> having a dedicated menu entry for such operation, but we can discuss it
>> later.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Orson
>>
>> On 02/06/2017 05:08 PM, John Beard wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This patch adds a missing tool to GAL: duplicate zone onto layer.
>>>
>>> It's accessed through the zones context menu and does the same as the
>>> legacy mode version.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>>
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