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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Non-modal Dialogs
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On Jul 22, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de> wrote:
> 
> An interesting question.
> 
> I think my idea last year was:
> 
> We have only one property dialog window or area, which can be visible or
> not. (I prefer an area for my peted clone, instead of overlapping
> windows, but that is a matter of taste.) If the user clicks on an
> element (symbol, text, net...) the property display update its content
> when it is open/visible -- some values may be displayed always like
> color, other like font or footprint only for some elements. A double
> click on an element may open that property display. Updating elements by
> other means (scripts, menu...) should simple gray out that property
> display, or maybe ask that display to update after all is done. It makes
> no sense to update that property display hundred times when a script
> changes textsize for all refdes.
> 

This would be the end goal. I don't have enough time to convert all the
dialog boxes over to the property dialog. It would help me if we could
go that direction in smaller steps.

What should the underlying property change notification system be? Would
developers be ok with gobject and signals?

Cheers,
Ed

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