Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Drag without selection in gschem

2011-03-25 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 22:56 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > I was watching some students using gschem the other week, and noticed > them struggling to move objects due to the fact they had to select them > first. I wrote a patch which lets a drag action operate on whatever is > under the mouse (sele

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Drag without selection in gschem

2011-03-22 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 23:29 +, Thomas Oldbury wrote: > I'd suggest making it an opt-out for people like me who like it as it >is, but maybe I'll get used to it. I have a strong resistance to adding options to control behaviour like this (especially since our code for UI interaction is not

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Drag without selection in gschem

2011-03-22 Thread Peter Clifton
On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 11:48 +1100, Geoff Swan wrote: > I had a couple of issues with the patch process - I didn't bother >checking which version I should have had (i'm using 1.7.0 20110116) but >went and manually patched it myself. Its against git HEAD, which I had just previously pushed s

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Drag without selection in gschem

2011-03-21 Thread Geoff Swan
I had a couple of issues with the patch process - I didn't bother checking which version I should have had (i'm using 1.7.0 20110116) but went and manually patched it myself. BTW - the first hunk worked fine - it was only the second one that failed. Otherwise it seems great, c

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Drag without selection in gschem

2011-03-21 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: > Could someone give this a test and come up with any counter-reasons why > this attached patch is NOT a good idea? I vaguely recall a similar (or > identical?) idea was discussed on the list recently? I like it. It is another step to gschem/pcb GUI similarity. ---<)kaimart

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Drag without selection in gschem

2011-03-21 Thread Geoff Swan
I very much like the idea of this patch :) I'll have a go at testing it. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Thomas Oldbury <[1]toldb...@gmail.com> wrote: I'd suggest making it an opt-out for people like me who like it as it is, but maybe I'll get used to it. O

Re: gEDA-user: [PATCH] Drag without selection in gschem

2011-03-21 Thread Thomas Oldbury
I'd suggest making it an opt-out for people like me who like it as it is, but maybe I'll get used to it. On 21 March 2011 22:56, Peter Clifton <[1]pc...@cam.ac.uk> wrote: Could someone give this a test and come up with any counter-reasons why this attached patch is NOT a g