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On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, DJ Delorie wrote:
> What are the unfinished features, and what would it take to finish them?
Citing from my mail in May [0]:
> - What should be done regarding the progress in having dockable gschem
> dialogs? Is someone willing to finish the work, should it be considered
> “finished” as-is and shipped in a stable release, or should it be moved
> to a feature branch, shipping the last stable UI?
Edward since indicated that he wasn't planning to finish the code[1].
Citing from my mail in September [2]:
> Implementing this as GTK docks should be possible, but I've started
> doing so as one of my first contributions to gEDA and soon decided that
> it's not worth the effort.
>
> As an alternative to docks, I could imagine preserving the position of
> both the main window and dialogs between gschem invocations. This way,
> users could arrange the parts of the UI in a way convenient to them once
> and have gschem remember it.
This would be much easier to implement; I could do that when I have some
time to spare.
Citing from my mail in May [0]:
> - What should be done regarding the changes in the configuration system?
> The current state is somewhat inconsistent, having both the traditional
> .gafrc-style files and the new geda.conf files at once. Is someone
> willing to finish the work, should it be considered “stable” as-is and
> released, or should the release have the last stable .gafrc-only
> configuration?
Since a change to the configuration system is a somewhat long-term
strategy-ish thing, and it's something the user will be directly exposed
to (they'll have to change their configuration files), I think it's better
to stick to the currently released .gafrc-only configuration for now and
leave this for the next release.
Roland
[0] http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=geda-user/2017/05/04/14:44:28
[1] http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=geda-user/2017/09/07/00:40:58
[2] http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=geda-user/2017/09/06/16:09:20
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