Re: gEDA: New dialog for editing attributes

[Werner Hoch <werner_dot_ho-at-NOSPAMgmx_dot_de>]

On Sunday 20 February 2005 19:59, Patrick Bernaud wrote:
>  > It would be useful to have the symbol name somewhere in the
>  > dialog.
>
> I am not sure this is the place where this information belongs. I
> would rather have some kind of information dialog that show this
> symbol name along with the full path to the symbol and stuff, like
> your 'symbol informations' area.

I've used a text area (read only) in the glade draft. The idea was to 
list every not promoted attibute of the symbol file. The user would see 
which attributes are already there.  I put that area below the buttons 
because it's not necessary to look at it when using the dialog.
Mmmh. Creating a seperate object (symbol) information dialog would be a 
good idea to.

>  > For curriosity. I've played yesterday with that dialog. The
>  > unfinished dialog looks like this:
>  > The draft drawn with glade:
>  > http://www.h-renrew.de/download/multiattrib_glade.png
>  > The unfinished gschem dialog:
>  > http://www.h-renrew.de/download/multiattrib_test.png
>
> Very nice. I like the separation between promoted attributes and
> other.

In the existing and in your new dialog they are already seperated. 
They just don't look similar to each other. I guess, usage would be 
easier if they do.

> The question is: do we have an expert in user interfaces that can
> draw us the ultimate dialog for attributes or tell us what is
> good/bad in our own attempts?

Well, I can't tell you.

Regards
Werner