On 20 June 2015 at 10:58, Henner Zeller <h.zel...@acm.org> wrote: > Hi, > So I know we're about about get ready for the stable release, but > there are two things that are possibly low-hanging fruit usability > improvements, that we might consider. > > A lot of usability problems I run into are a series of modal dialogs I > have to go through for common tasks, this addresses the ones that > annoy me the most. > > I am happy to help working on the implementation on at least on of > them if the consensus is that it make sense before the stable release. > I personally think it does ... > > == Exporting Netlist. == > > Exporting a netlist is pretty involved right now > - Press 'export Netlist button' > - Get a modal dialog to choose if I want pcbnew format or three > others I usually don't care about unless I want to export something. > So just pressing the [Generate] button > - Get _another_ modal dialog that asks me the filename to save it > as. Which _maybe_ makes sense when I choose one of the export options, > but not when I am in the workflow of getting a netlist out to be used > in pcbnew. > > So I suggest > - Have the 'export Netlist button' just export the netlist in kicad > format the default $(schematic-name).net filename. Single button press > for the common task. Down from three actions to one. The status > message should just indicate that it save the net file with number of > nets (right now, it only shows number of nets) > > - Have the current workflow in the menu as 'Export Netlist...' or something > > == Annotation while exporting Netlist == > > When exporting the netlist, and not everything is annotated, the > workflow currently is as follows > 1) Press annotation button, press generate, press save (three steps, > that would now be one step if above is implemented) > 2) kicad notices that not everything is annotated and pops up a > modal dialog on top of the kicad control application (for some reason, > not on the eeschema), telling that items are not annotated and if I > would like to do that. Select 'Yes'. > 3) Then the annotation dialog pops up. > > I suggest to leave out the intermediate step and directly open the > annotation dialog but with the additional message on top. This cuts > out one click, and the distracting fact that the previous window > popped up at a very different place on the screen.
This second point is addressed in patch https://github.com/hzeller/kicad/compare/remove-unnecessary-intermediate-step.diff -h _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
