gEDA-user: pcb refdes name restrictions?

[phil at plastitar.com]

Peter Clifton wrote:
  > The user setting the footprint attribute would auto-complete with a
> drop-down list of the available footprints 

This would be useful.  The insertion of proper footprint names in 
gattrib is currently the slowest part (for me anyway) of going from 
gschem to PCB.

> Another thought was even to (optionally) bring up the PCB footprint
> window with a GUI preview. (Suitably library'fied if possible to avoid
> code duplication)

This would be useful.

Phil Taylor