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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Clutterless user interface or even more custom
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Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> 3. Try to make Undo() independent from this query.

Certainly!

> 4. Remove these special modes. That'd be LOCKNAMESFLAG, HIDENAMESFLAG
> and ONLYNAMESFLAG.
..
> 5.: 3. and 4. together.

Maybe.


> I tend to do 4., then 3..

Removing a user-visible feature risks breaking someone's workflow no
matter how awkward or obscure the feature is.

The question is what to do if someone reports a regression. WONTFIX
is valid, as is a longer-term project to change the data model, so
that these operations are just a superset of more generic operations.

I for one wouldn't mind pcb losing this particular complexity.

Thanks for looking into it.


//Peter