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Subject:	[geda-user] Next for me in pcb: tooltips
From:	"Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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The next thing I'd like to work on is adding a lot of tooltips and expanding
some of them.  I'm hoping this will be fairly quick and easy.

Why:

  * There are features that users don't find because the menu names aren't
    quite descriptive enough (e.g. Lock/Only/Hide Names would have been
useful
    to me).

  * There are features that are hard to use even when their purpose is
obvious,
    because complex actions are required after the tool in question is
    selected (e.g. maybe I'll learn how to draw polygons along the way :)

  * It will help me in becoming aware of as many PCB features as possible


How:

  * Add entries to (g)pcb-menu.res.in, sort out why the few tips already
there
    don't show up for me.

  * Create the usual devel branch, hopefully others can help fill in
tooltips
    for features they are most familiar with


Questions:

  * Some of the tooltips might need to get slightly bigger to be useful, so
    might get annoying.  So it might be nice if their was an obvious way to
    turn them off.  I guess it would be an entry in Preferences->general.
    Whether it's worth it would depend on how annoying people find them.

  * Is there any way to describe things like the
    switch-layers-while-drawing-line-to-magically-add-a-via trick that
people
    will actually read?  It took me a long time to find out about it and
others
    have had the same trouble


Britton

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Britton</div></div></div>

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