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From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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On Tue, 22 Dec 2020, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Docks have been introduced before the fork. You just haven't
> managed to find how to set up them?  'use-docks=true' in
> ~/.config/lepton-eda/lepton-user.conf does the trick.

Edward Hennessy did a good job starting with the dock implementation, but 
the 10% which were forked into lepton-eda aren't very useful by 
themselves, which is why few people are using them.  You can't change 
which dialogs are docked, you can't change where they are docked, and the 
dialogs you'd most probably want to use as docks--symbol library and 
attribute editor--don't even support docking at all.

> some of our contributions get to geda-gaf, ask Roland ;-)

Since you keep bringing this up, let me give a comprehensive list of 
changes in lepton-eda which were applied to gEDA/gaf:

   fe23971 is a Guile-related bugfix (by Peter TB Brett)
   83e8336 adds Guile 2.2 to the configure script (by Vladimir Zhbanov)
   490bf1f un-deprecates two functions (by Peter TB Brett)

These are three commits which, in total, add 21 and remove 6 lines of 
code, or in other words, 0.01% of the changes in gEDA/gaf 1.10.0.  I chose 
to cherry-pick them instead of just re-implementing the gist because I 
think crediting them in this way is a sign of respect towards the 
developers who figured out how to solve this in the first place.  By the 
way, the patch by dmn you mentioned some time ago (de98989) relates to 
libxornstorage which you didn't even bother forking.

In short, the concept that I'd copied anything from lepton-eda is 
blatantly wrong.

Roland