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On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, Atommann (atommann AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> 2016-06-30 12:03 GMT+08:00  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu>:
>>
>>
>> I went for a third option after the big cleanup of the default footprint lib
>> shipped with pcb-rnd. This one uses pregenerated pngs and imagemaps:
>>
>> http://igor2.repo.hu/tmp/pcblib/
>>
>> The idea is to put all the different footprints on a single lower res
>> overview image, so it's easy to browse through them, preferrably without
>> scrolling. They are groupped by some arbitrary categorization. Each group is
>> an imagemap link to a higher resolution rendering where each footprint is an
>> imagemap link to the footprint page.
>>
>> This probably works only for small libraries where the all-footprint
>> overview page fits on an average screen.
>
> cool!
> How about if we have a footprint/symbol search system which works like
> the google image search mode?

Are you going to implement that?