UI consistency & simplification

[Jeff Young]

Top-level node for 6.0 UI consistency work.

  - order icons the same in the libedit/modedit/pcbnew/cvpcb/etc.
    toolbars. (5.1)

  - ellipses in dialog buttons which open other dialogs (5.1)

  - remove active library concept in modedit (5.1)

  - remove active library concept in libedit (5.1)

  - remove legacy canvas in pcbnew

  - collapse system settings to single version (5.1)
      - icon scale
      - icons in menu
      - touchpad / warp / pan options
      - language

  - tabularize pcbnew's preferences (5.1)

  - remove remaining eeschema preference menu items (they either go
    to app settings or they go to the tabbed preferences dialog) (5.1)

  - implement Save As... for eeschema (5.1)

Right-click menu inconsistencies (5.1)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1751381

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

@Jeff, I don't know if you are aware but we do have a road map[1] for documenting changes like this rather than constantly updating a bug report. The source for the road map is in the kicad source folder Documentation/development/road-map-r6.md. There is already a section for UI improvements[2].

The other option which has been discussed is to use a launchpad blueprint[3] which can be linked to this bug report. We haven't used blueprints to their full effect but they may actually be a better way to document new features and changes rather than making changes to the code base every time we want to change the road map. The list of kicad blueprints[4] is rather long and unfortunately there is no way to prevent them from being publicly modified but the same is true for bug reports.

I'm fine with using a bug report but there are other options which may provide a better work flow.

[1]: http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/doxygen/v6_road_map.html
[2]: http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/doxygen/v6_road_map.html#v6_wxaui
[3]: https://help.launchpad.net/Blueprint
[4]: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/kicad

[Nicholas Savenlid (nicholas-z)]

Very exciting.
Feeling blissed.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

There's still the legacy canvas for eeschema, but we've got separate bugs to track that so I'm going to close this one out as the rest of it is done.