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Re: gEDA-dev: some suggestions
Hi all,
Well, most apps do have a "preferences" menu option for user
configurable settings.
I imagine that this could be usefull on a per project (subdir) basis.
If this local file is to be generated (and of course loaded at runtime
during the next reading of a schematic from that subdirectory) that
could be an inprovement.
One could start from scratch, set and save the local preferences, save
and revert the newly started schematic and go on with editing the
schematic with gschem.
It could contain cofigurable items such as the ones listed below and
other items (maybe include "attribs") as to have a descriptive file from
which the whole geda suite could obtain information (basically a kind of
project file).
BTW: for the mentioned "symbol libraries", I think you do not mean the
general stuff that came with geda-symbols (in the /usr/share/gEDA/sym
subdirectories or wherever it is put), rather the per project symbols
needed for hierarchical schematics.
Just my EUR 0.02.
Kind regards,
Bert Timmerman.
-----Original Message-----
From: geda-dev-bounces@moria.seul.org
[mailto:geda-dev-bounces@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Christian Viller
Hansen
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 9:56 AM
To: gEDA developer mailing list
Subject: Re: gEDA-dev: some suggestions
I have been thinking about the geda-config/gschem-config configuration
gui. I have read through system-gafrc and system-gschemrc and I don't
think it will be a good idea to make a configuration tool which updates
it self. If everything in such a configuration tool is auto generated
from the system configuration-files, there is no real reason to have
such a tool - it will not be able to make configuration any easier. What
I was thinking was to make a tool to configure the stuff that most
beginner to intermediate users would want to change on a per project
basis. That would be things like:
titlepage
default paper size
symbol libraries
(spice includes)
color theme
rubberband mode
etc.
I don't know if I'm the only one that thinks it would be nice to
graphically configure things like that, but I guess not. Especially if
the userbase of geda utils is going to expand beyond advanced linux
users. There is still the problem about what configurations should be
applied to ~/.gEDA and what should be written in local project files.
Maybe a ngspice interface would be more fun...
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