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From: Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] Find Text Mechanism
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 03:30:49 +0200
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Edward Hennessy (ehennes AT sbcglobal DOT net) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

>> Every such option provides one more way for the user to waste time
>> lost in GUI. One of the most wonderful features of gschem compared
>> to commercial offerings has been that it minimizes such
>> distractions.

I strongly disagree.
When I switched to geda I had to develop quite a bunch of tedious 
workarounds to get things done which protel95 had offered me at the 
tip of my fingers. 


> Which option would waste time? The option to use one of two dialogs,
> or the additional checkbox?

> Another possibility is to only have the docked dialog at the bottom
> of the window.

I'd rather put the dialog area to the left. Modern screen tend to be 
wide but a little short in height. 
BTW, if it is not going to scale on the fly like a dock and it does 
not use a docking library, we might as well not call it a dock. 
"Dialog area" sounds more appropriate to me.


> Then, provide a single button with a gear icon.
> Pressing this button opens up a pop up menu with all the checkboxes
> and radio buttons.

No new pop-ups, please!
Also, please no checkbox collections tucked away at some non-obvious 
places in the GUI. This was one of the less than optimum features of 
protel95. I spent hours searching for the checkbox page that I knew 
was somewhere. 

There are two dialogs which need quite a bit of space -- the symbol 
chooser and the attribute editor. So the find&replace dialog would 
have ample space to include a few checkbox options.

---<)kaimartin(>---