On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 03:02:51AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Andrew Poelstra wrote: > > > Can we use toggle buttons instead of radio buttons for the > > route style selector? It would look like so: > > > > http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/toggle.png > > > > This gives more clickable area and a cleaner look, I think. > > The look is still inconsistent. The buttons are centered. By > contrast, the tool box and the layer lines are flush-left. > > > I'd prefer a more radical change: > > 1) Make the route styles as user configurable as the layers. That > is, allow to add odr delete styles, change the order they appear > in the GUI, >
Nope, core changes required. I can allow the addition of arbitrarily many temporary layers (and I plan to), but that's pretty much the extent of what I can do without making serious changes. > 2) Attach accel-keys to route styles. I know, we are running out > of accels. But this is an important omission in the current GUI. > Changing route styles is a very frequent action while manual > routing. How about [ctrl-F1], ... [ctrl-F12]? > Sure. Unless someone has a better idea, I'll go with these. > 3) Add a little preview to the left of the route style name, that > indicates the width of the tracks. Actual width in the preview may > be calculated relative to the other route styles. > I considered this, but route styles control more than just line size, and I don't think "relative to the other route styles" would be very useful. > 4) Get rid of the "Route Style" button. Its meaning depends on > the currently selected route style. This is very non-standard and > newbie unfriendly. Here is my proposal: add an 's' to "Route Style" and have it load this dialog: http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/styles-dialog.png > Proposal: Move its function to right-mouse click on every style button. > Ideally, this would be complimented by a config page in prefernces in > case a user can't do right-clicks (e.g. mac users). This would also be > the place to change order config accel keys or add more route styles. > Side effect: More space in the right sidebar :-) > > To fully implement these proposals, changes in the internals of pcb > are required. But at least, a GUI-only redesign should not conflict > such ideas. > -- Andrew Poelstra Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net "Do whatever you want. Do what you think is important. Everybody is an individual." --Ron Paul _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
