Re: gEDA-user: Which are the biggest looking gEDA warts? REQUESTTRACKER

[Dan McMahill <dan-atMUNGEDmcmahill_dot_net>]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 17:24 -0700, Marc Moreau wrote:
> 
>>>>	Adding attributes requires too much mouse work (selecting,
>>>>	careful pointing to position the attribute, then you use
>>>>	both hands to type a net name, hand back to mouse, etc).
>>>
>>>Use gattrib.  That's what it's for.
>>
>>One Gripe...
>>gattib:
>>	You can't use it like you expect from a spreadsheet. ie. <tab> to move horizontally, <enter> to move vertically. with <shift> where appropriate.  When you move cells, it steals focus and sets your X paste buffer to whatever is in the cell, so you can't middle-click to paste something you just highlighted from another window. I use that to quickly copy footprint names.
>>
>>Perhaps a web-based list is in order.  a wiki perhaps.
>>-Lares
> 
> 
> Ales pointed out to me that these all ought to get filed under the
> SourceForge request tracker, or they will get forgotten very quickly:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=818429&group_id=161080&func=browse
> 
> A personal request.. if people take time to open a SourceForge account,
> rather than logging these anonymously, it is better if anyone wants to
> ask followup questions.

I agree on all accounts.  I know I've closed a few bug reports where I 
couldn't reproduce it and had no way to contact the original submitter.

Not that we're exactly overrun by such requests, but when a motivated 
person wants to find out how they can contribute, a good answer is 
always "help fix bugs and implement feature requests from the tracker".

-Dan



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