gEDA-bug: [ geda-Bugs-1746489 ] Nice-to-have: preview of footprints in gschem

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Bugs item #1746489, was opened at 2007-07-02 15:00
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: KaiMartin (kaimartin)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Nice-to-have: preview of footprints in gschem

Initial Comment:
If a symbol contains a footprint attribute, the gschem library dialog should give a preview. I know, this is only useful with "heavy" symbols and willl be frowned at by the  proponents of light symbols. But wasn't geda supposed to support heavy symbols too? Anyway, a footprint preview would make it easier to avoid the all too common mistakes of plain wrong footprints.

A footprint preview would be nice for symbols already in the schematic too. Maybe a command that pops a little graphic for a currently selected symbol...  

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