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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Is gschem 1.9.2 (gb83e7a3) the latest version?
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On 11/29/17, Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> wrote:
> 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.

Aren't window managers normally free to ignore any position hints?  I
think sometimes with gnome the result was worse with remembered
positions, though I'm not sure if it was gnome or the app in the cases
I'm thinking of.

Britton