On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak
<[1]k...@familieknaak.de> wrote:
Dan Roganti wrote:
> I'll be glad to help anyone in this development group with this
> documentation work.
I am close to start off a gEDA wikibook
([2]http://en.wikibooks.org).
Would yo
On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 10:51:31PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> Dan Roganti wrote:
>
> > I'll be glad to help anyone in this development group with this
> > documentation work.
>
> I am close to start off a gEDA wikibook (http://en.wikibooks.org).
> Would you join the effort?
>
I'd be happy
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 22:47 +0100, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:56 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > How about this for a solution:
> >
> > 1. When saving to disk, don't disconnect/reconnect the file watch,
> >just leave it connected. However, ignore any file modification
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:56 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:54:27 +0100
I've fixed it now by copying the gedit solution of checking file mtimes
on mouse in to the main window. (Should cover most use-cases of the user
switching between applications editing the same file).
I
On Sep 7 2011, Colin D Bennett wrote:
(Actually, I would prefer to stop auto-scroll forever, because it
always scrolls when I don't intend it to, and it doesn't work right
when I _do_ want it to scroll... I wonder if it can be disabled by
setting auto-pan-speed in pcb preferences file to 0...
Y
Dan Roganti wrote:
> I'll be glad to help anyone in this development group with this
> documentation work.
I am close to start off a gEDA wikibook (http://en.wikibooks.org).
Would you join the effort?
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Josef Wolf wrote:
> With this work flow, you'd have as much (or even more) mouse clicks
> as without the tool. So what's the point of using the tool if you
> have _more_ work with it than without it?
I don't seem to have have more work than without it.
Benefits:
You can zoom way out and still b
John Griessen wrote:
> I bet gEDA seems too complicated.
I bet not :-)
CERN software engeneers don't fear complexity -- not under the hood, nor
on the interface. They strive for elegance and excellent results instead.
See the structure and the UI of paw, or root.
> The main thing was probab
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:12:03 +0200
Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:27:08AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > I have recently started to like the gschem Magnetic Net mode, now that
> > I learned to use Ctrl-click to put explicit intermediate points in the
> > lines instead of just cl
On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:54:27 +0100
Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:42 +0200, Kovacs Levente wrote:
> > Each time I save my layout, a message appears: "layout changed. Do you
> > want to load it?" or something like that.
> >
> > Brr well of couse it changed! I saved it! :-
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:33:12 +0400
Vladimir Zhbanov wrote:
> Hello.
> I read the main pcb doc and found the section Panner Control. After searching
> in the last pcb sources I found no mention of this widget. It seems to be
> excluded from the code during transition from Xaw interface to GTK HID i
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:13 PM, John Griessen <[1]j...@ecosensory.com>
wrote:
I can see a core set of plugins shipping with the source, but not
all.
I don't see it as a big deal though, since if a feature is really
"core"
it will be in the core, so not shipping plug
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:44 PM, John Doty <[1]j...@noqsi.com> wrote:
On Sep 4, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a strange usability behavior with gschem 1.6.2.20110115 (the
version
> that comes with ubuntu-11.04). I have attached a small schematic to
On 09/07/2011 09:48 AM, Peter Clifton wrote:
I had wondered if part of the reasoning might be that KiCad feels a lot
more local to them. (KiCad being a French originated project - CERN
being on the French / Swiss border.)
That is one thing. Also they stated their wants as "integrated printed c
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:27:08AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:59:39 +0200
> Josef Wolf wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 09:13:06PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> > > > IMHO, this works against user expectation. After all, the whole
> > > > point of the circle is t
Um, with all due respectI don't consider myself 'simple
minded'I am a professional EE, been working in this industry for a
28+ years, and have a few technical advanced degrees.I have both worked
in and managed groups of EEs doing state of the art EE research and
design. So,
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:08 AM, DJ Delorie <[1]d...@delorie.com> wrote:
> you all never worried about cern before? why start now?
It's not CERN itself that's the issue, it's that a big organization
wanted to help a project, and it wasn't us. The more developers
Kicad
g
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 15:01 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> CERN is a missed opportunity. No reason to deny it, no reason to give up,
> either. But maybe an occasion to think about the reasons.
I had wondered if part of the reasoning might be that KiCad feels a lot
more local to them. (KiCad be
> you all never worried about cern before? why start now?
It's not CERN itself that's the issue, it's that a big organization
wanted to help a project, and it wasn't us. The more developers Kicad
gets, the more users they'll get, which brings in more developers,
etc. If we lose developers, we l
> Orthogonal moves doesn't work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/699202
I worked on this for a while last week, it's *really* hard to get this
right as a separate flag because of the way the "tools" are
implemented. There's no easy way to tell when to reset the origin, or
when to apply o
John Hudak wrote:
> Anyway, I switched to using KiCAD and it was like going from driving a FIAT
> stick to driving a 911 stick.
Just a head-up note: When I tried kicad a few months back, I felt the exact
opposite. I just did not seem to get anywhere with a little test project. Of
course this is
John Hudak wrote:
> Anyway, I switched to using KiCAD and it was like going from driving a FIAT
> stick to driving a 911 stick...
Please elaborate on this one.
What exactly constituted the difference that made you feel like that?
You already told us about the library/M4 thing. But there was cert
Steve Meier wrote:
> you all never worried about cern before? why start now? better to just
> keep focused on your current customers then unknown future additional
> users.
For what its worth: Yes, I am worried about geda not being the preferred EDA
tool in a scientific environment, becausethis i
Hello John,
I am really happy (and a bit of surprised) that critical postings are
still allowed for this list.
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 22:07 -0400, John Hudak wrote:
> You might want to consider import/export capability for the most widely
>used commercial product (not sure what that is at the
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 10:42 +0200, Kovacs Levente wrote:
> Each time I save my layout, a message appears: "layout changed. Do you
> want to load it?" or something like that.
>
> Brr well of couse it changed! I saved it! :-) Ok, I know it is a good
> feature...
Yes - it turns out that my c
you all never worried about cern before? why start now? better to just
keep focused on your current customers then unknown future additional
users.
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> Also, please try the windows installer nightly builds:
> http://www.delorie.com/pcb/geda-windows/
>
This afternoon I talked one of the PhD students into trying the nightly
build on her WinXP dexktop. The pcb binary loaded fine and looked good
with the new layer selection box a
You might want to consider import/export capability for the most widely
used commercial product (not sure what that is at the moment).
You may want to consider the following as well:
1) An updated tutorial that is accurate (IIRC, last edit is 2007, a bit
long in the tooth, not to men
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:04:03 -0400
DJ Delorie wrote:
> At this time, I'd like to ask folks to try the git head PCB and see if
> there are any bugs that must be fixed for this release, and/or work on
Orthogonal moves doesn't work and sometimes some menu items in the GTK hid
doesn't work. It mi
Each time I save my layout, a message appears: "layout changed. Do you
want to load it?" or something like that.
Brr well of couse it changed! I saved it! :-) Ok, I know it is a good
feature...
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On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 21:04:03 -0400
DJ Delorie wrote:
When you do "save buffer elements to file" and you point the chooser to an
existing file, pcb exits with this message:
**
Gtk:ERROR:/build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtkfilechooserdefault.c:8125:get_display_name_from_file_list:
assertion failed
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