gEDA-user: Multiple open pages in gschem

[Cory Cross]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> Do you use multiple windows running from the same copy of gschem?
Yes, frequently with dual monitors.

> Do you use multiple running copies of gschem?
Occasionally to view an unrelated project, to remember how I did things 
in another circuit, but only temporarily.

> Do you use these for related schematics?
>   (Do you tend to have multiple pages from the same design?)
No multiple copies for the same design, but yes for multiple windows

> How much use do you make of hierarchy traversal?
>   (Schematic or symbol down, up, page next, page previous)?
Frequently for everything but schematic down (I thought it wasn't 
implemented?)
> For testing, I've got a version of gschem which just opens a pages in a
> flat list. These can be traversed using toolbar buttons, just like a
> document viewer. This significantly simplifies some code, and UI
> presentation issues for a complex nested  hierarchy.
So, the current page manager but no nesting? I'm fine with it; the 
nesting doesn't add any value AFAICT.

> I'm also considering it might be best to launch a new window for each
> hierarchy level, reserving multiple pages in one window to tie directly
> to the case where a single level of hierarchy has multiple pages.
/Me thinks of the furor over GNOME's file manager windows... (I dislike 
it, if you're wondering)

> Example screenshots are at:
They look fine to me, as long as you don't get rid of the keyboard 
shortcuts :)

Cory Cross