Re: [Kicad-developers] Message Dialogs

2019-07-21 Thread Ian McInerney
Wayne, I never have understood what the Gnome folks do either (hence why I use Mate and the Gnome 2 look I guess :) ). It also looks like the lack of the image in the dialog is an intentional choice by Gnome now. I will have to figure out a way around the bold text issue in the wxRichMessageDialo

[Kicad-developers] MOD_VIRTUAL flag

2019-07-21 Thread Jeff Young
This flag tells us that there’s no physical object for a pick-n-place machine. But is it also true that there’s no corresponding symbol in the schematic, or are there some virtual footprints that would have a symbol? What about some microwave elements, for instance? Do they have symbols? _

Re: [Kicad-developers] Message Dialogs

2019-07-21 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
Ian, While I like the appearance of your dialogs better, they do not look native on GTK3 like the last two images. While I may not agree with the Gnome folks design choices all of the time, I would rather avoid making KiCad look like it uses it's own widgets toolkits. Using the stock platform di

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Board statistics dialog

2019-07-21 Thread Dino Ghilardi
Makes sense. Instead of a generic "via count" a more complete table similar to the one generated in the drill report file could be useful, but may be it can became quite long if a lot of different drill sizes are used (ok, scrollbars are made to handle that). Also having "vias", "blind vias" an

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Board statistics dialog

2019-07-21 Thread Mark Roszko
> Since making every hole in the pcb costs time, manufacturers calculate the price of the PCB using also that number. A long time ago, holes cost alot. These days if your manufacturer is charging alot per hole, you should run far away. Usually manufactuers include 20k-40k holes in the base price

Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] Board statistics dialog

2019-07-21 Thread Dino Ghilardi
I just tried the board statistics dialog and looks good, I like it. A thing I'd like to have to make it better is adding the number of vias to the statistics: Since making every hole in the pcb costs time, manufacturers calculate the price of the PCB using also that number. Also the option to