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From: Markus Hitter <mah AT jump-ing DOT de>
Subject: Re: [RFC, v2] [geda-user] [PATCH] Allow to create metric Gerber and drill files.
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 13:07:37 +0200
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Am 06.07.2012 um 11:20 schrieb Peter Stuge:

> Gabriel Paubert wrote:
>> maybe we should stay with imperial Gerber and drill files by default.
>
> I personally only want metric drill sizes so metric default is fine
> with me, but I guess all our friends still stuck with the imperial
> system may prefer the old default. :)

Not neccessarily "stuck", scripts and tutorials simply expect  
imperial units, because this is the only option until today. You'd  
have to review and/or rewrite them all ... which likely takes some time.

> I think a conservative default would be fine, but I absolutely want
> to be able to set this globally for my user. Can I already?

I think a system to store the values in all the exporter dialogs  
between application launches is needed. No need for fancy preferences  
dialogs, just store what was used the last time. The same applies  
e.g. for the G-code exporter, where some people always want  
"advanced" G-code, while others can make use of simplified G-code, only.

The system for showing the dialogs comes with nice utility functions  
already, is there some prior art - uncommitted patches, forks outside  
of geda-project.org, algorithm sketches, etc. - for storing values, yet?


Markus

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