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[Brian Piccioni <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eeli

I wasn't aware the merge. Gitlab is a nightmare for me and I may have 
closed it accidentally. Ever since I opened my brianadtdocumenteddesigns 
account it would not let me clone kicad master. Eventually I found a 
workaround to let me clone alex's fork but then when I tried to fix my 
geographical annotation it resolutely would not let me do that no matter 
what I tried. So I opened a new gitlab account bjpiccioni and have been 
using that.

I would very much like thoughts/help on the UI in general. I am very bad 
with UIs and was hoping that someone would comment. While I appreciate 
good UIs I don't seem to be able to create them myself.

I like your idea and will work on it.

I will also send out another plea for help specifically for the missing 
icons. I think I can manually create them for debugging purposes but it 
baffles me nobody seems to know how to make them using the recommended 
procedure.

Any additional comments/suggestions are welcomed.


Brian

On 2020-02-04 3:55 a.m., Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> GitLab
>
> Eeli Kaikkonen <https://gitlab.com/eelik> commented:
>
> I'm curious, do all the parties who have been involved in this 
> discussion receive notifications even though this merge request has 
> been closed?
>
> I use this discussion because the actual comment is on topic, I hope 
> Brian doesn't mind reviving this.
>
> You asked about the icons in the mailing list. I can't help with that, 
> but I have another thought about the UI WRT the direction.
>
> Here's a screenshot from your old UI: image 
> <https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/uploads/6caec197e4d19b8723dcb5c7dd039b89/image.png>
>
> I don't know what kind of changes you have planned, but if you are 
> going to use all 8 direction options, it would be better to break up 
> into two options: "Start from" and "Direction". Then there would be 4 
> options + 2 options:
>
> |Start From: Top left Top right Bottom left Bottom right Direction: 
> Horizontal first Vertical first|
>
> And there could be one place for the icon which would show the final 
> combination.
>
> This would be IMO much more easy to comprehend than putting all 8 into 
> one list.
>
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