different block operation behavour between applications

[Sergey A. Borshch]

Eeschema: select block, move it to other location - block in old location remains at its place and original color, after selecting "Duplicate block" in dropdown menu block copy and cursor jumps to original block location.

Libedit: select block, move it to other location - block in old location changes color, after selecting "Duplicate block" in dropdown menu block copy and cursor remains at new position - seems most intuitive and correct behavior.

Footprint editor, Pcbnew (legacy canvas): select block, move it to other location - block in old location remains at its place and original color, after selecting "Duplicate block" in dropdown menu block copy placed at current cursor position.

Version info (today's git master):
Application: kicad
Version: (2017-12-24 revision 5708665)-master, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.2
Platform: Linux 4.4.0-104-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.2 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 2.24
    Boost: 1.58.0
    Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 with C++ ABI 1009

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=OFF
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=OFF
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=OFF
    KICAD_USE_OCE=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

I could live with libedit's or pcbnew's implementation. eeschema's is rather annoying.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

Nicholas Savenlid reports the corollary of the eeschema behaviour:

eeschema: duplicate block makes original invisible

1: mark some objects
2: duplicate block
once you start to move your duplicated block the original becomes invisible so it appears like a move operation

3: put your copy down, and the original becomes visible again

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

The bug in comment #2 has been fixed in the GAL branch.

[Seth Hillbrand (sethh)]

I'm setting this back to triaged as my previous code work doesn't merge into the GAL branch. We'll need to look at it differently if it remains problematic

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

Fixed in revision d65bb73d4e7f5a9cb606f0862de9172029c27099
https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/patch/?id=d65bb73d4e7f5a9cb606f0862de9172029c27099