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From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gschem 1.9.1 UI
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On Thu, 7 Sep 2017, Shashank Chintalagiri 
(shashank DOT chintalagiri AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I can sort of see the utility of panels in general, though this 
> particular set is a little out there from the perspective of how I've 
> used gschem.   Making it dockable, ala Qt's dock widget, would certainly 
> be a improvement. I have no idea how that would work in scheme,  and how 
> much effort it would take for a comparable implementation. 

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.

Would anyone who uses gschem in its current form consider this a 
regression?

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