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On Tue, 5 Apr 2016, Roland Lutz wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Apr 2016, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
>> 1. Do you use the lesstif HID? (select one)
> c. sometimes, rarely
>
> The main reason I'm not using the lesstif HID is that the library window 
> doesn't perform well with a hierarchical directory layout, and that layer 
> grouping is somewhat cumbersome.  Also, it would help if I could run the 
> lesstif HID by specifying a command-line option without having to recompile 
> PCB.

Good to hear others needs this as well. FYI, pcb-rnd can be compiled with 
both HIDs and there's a --gui command line argument that selects which one 
to start. By the next release HIDs are true plugins, so can be dynamically 
linked so one can decide which plugins to install without having to 
recompile the executable if he changes his mind.

Furthermore after the menu.res cleanup it'd be possible to even switch 
between GUIs runtime, while editing a board.

(I can't fix the library window or the other lesstif-related stuff, tho)

>> 2. If there were different menu resources files distributed with PCB, would 
>> you try them? (select one)
> a. yes, I'd give each variant a try before deciding which one to use
>
> It would be nice to be able to switch gschem and PCB keyboard mappings 
> between:
> - as before
> - gschem hotkeys for PCB, too
> - Emacs-style hotkeys
> - Windows-style hotkeys

I plan to have a menu layout selector in the GUI in pcb-rnd (menus and 
hotkeys move togehter).

Do you think you'd keep switching between menu/key layouts runtime or 
would it be more like a select-once configuration?

TIA,

Igor2