gEDA-user: wishful thinking from a user point of view (2)

[John Doty]

On Jul 2, 2007, at 7:00 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:

> Second entry from my book of wishes:
>
> ------------------------
> 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...

This is a huge job, since gEDA supports many different printed  
circuit programs, each with its own (usually undocumented) footprint  
library setup.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd at noqsi.com