Re: gEDA: Component selection dialog and a few other things

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda-at-NOSPAMseul_dot_org>]

Hi Patrick,

[snip]
>Well it looks like I can not successfully load gTAG.sch with the CVS
>version either. It also does not read the gschemrc file and when
>providing a gafrc file it fails to find the source and component
>library directories.

	Okay, then this is a longer standing bug which I will look into.

[snip]
>I also like this idea of google-like search for symbol. We would have
>to tag every symbol and build some kind of index as it is not possible
>to load every symbol every time.

	Yeah, this coupled with the idea to cryptographically sign the
instanciated components as they are placed into a schematic will solve 
a few other long standing issues.

[snip]
>I did not like this behavior. This is in part the reason for this
>attempt to display all matching symbols. The user can then choose the
>symbol he want or refine its search. What do other people think?

	Okay, fair enough.

[snip]
>It is a sort of reorg. They belong to gnetlist more than libgeda.

	Okay.

[snip]
>  - new functions to save and close page in x_window.nw on the model
>    of the functions to open page and change current page.

	Okay.
>
>  - an alternate autosave feature: each page has its own timeout
>    source instead of one timeout source for every pages.

	Interesting.  Why would a user want a different timeout per page?

>
>  - a clean-up of the stroke interface.

	Cool.

>
>  - a rewrite of the single attribute editor dialog. And it is now
>    used by the multiattrib dialog for adding attributes.

	Good good. :)

>
>Tarballs are here:
>http://www.chbcp.net/~pat/geda/libgeda-dev.tar.gz
>http://www.chbcp.net/~pat/geda/geda-gschem-dev.tar.gz

	I haven't grabbed these yet, but I will soon.  After I get this
release out (really), we can coordinate in getting these changes integrated
into CVS.  Many thanks for all this greatly overdue work!

								-Ales