Re: gEDA-dev: Breakage in PCB

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> DJ committed this change to PCB earlier today: "When the layer stack
> is reset, bring the component layer to the front and make it
> active."  This has broken GTK+ PCB on my system: it spews assertions
> continuously.

I put code in the gtk hid to skip that action if it hasn't initialized
the gui yet.

> 1. Attempt to move the 0402 resistor without moving its text out of
> the way first.  (This is infuriating when trying to position several
> 0402 resistors close together).  Of course, if you hide the silk
> layer you can't move the footprint anyway!

I added a LockText item to lesstif for that, I think a patch for the
gtk menu was posted recently.  It's just a gpcb-menu.res addition.

> Finally, it's really silly that pressing "Tab" doesn't leave you
> looking at the same spot on the board, just from the other side.

It should.  It does with lesstif.

> In a similar vein, it's less than brilliant that when you press
> "Shift-B" to move components to the other side, you then have to
> look around half the board to see where they ended up.

I posted a query about that just a few days ago, asking people what it
*should* do.


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