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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Pin Type Dialog
From: Edward Hennessy <ehennes AT sbcglobal DOT net>
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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 21:50:33 -0700
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On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 09:53:11AM -0700, Edward Hennessy wrote:
> ...
>> Non-modal dialogs can be left open during the entire session while
>> editing schematics. I believe the issue becomes the number of
>> mon-modal dialogs open at the same time, and the inconvenience for the
>> user to arrange/manage them.
>> 
>> Is there a another dialog that it could be merged into?
> The pin type editing dialog is rarely used. I don't see a point why it
> should be always open. (I may be wrong, but I don't even consider the
> "bus pin" to be somewhere useful.)

I haven't used busses or bus pins in gEDA.

I think the pin types need to be exposed in a consistent GUI format,
until the functionality is changed (or removed) in the future.

The new dialogs provide expander widgets to hide sections. I can look
at using the mechanism that stores dialog locations to also store the
preference to keep sections hidden for the users that don't need them.
This way, the for the users that don't need the pin type, it will
remain hidden.

Cheers,
Ed