gschem: place the netname attribute at a decent distance

[KaiMartin]

Currently, the letters of a new netname attribute touch the corresponding net. Please place the attribute at a decent distance (e.g. 50 units offset).
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[Patrick Bernaud (patrickb)]

Note that it could have been done using a hook and the existing auto-place.

[Edward Hennessy (ehennes)]

Yes, it could. But, it seems reasonable for the application to position new attributes, then allow any hooks, if present, to re-position the attributes. I'm not against someone with more scheme experience moving this functionality into a hook.

[Patrick Bernaud (patrickb)]

My point was that it is doubling the amount of code for a single feature in addition to changing to the current behaviour.

There are already a few hooks defined in the default system-gschemrc that are making use of auto-place. Besides, the placement can be configured and the hook can be disabled by the user.

[Peter TB Brett (peter-b)]

Hi Ed -- please add a link to the commit that fixes this bug...!

[Edward Hennessy (ehennes)]

<a href="http://git.geda-project.org/geda-gaf/commit/?id=7dafcd5e30e957dc1fffbb2eedae5d1a555a6552">7dafcd5e30e957dc1fffbb2eedae5d1a555a6552</a>

[Peter TB Brett (peter-b)]

Assigning this to me to replace with Scheme / hooks implementation.

[Peter TB Brett (peter-b)]

I've committed a version of Patrick's patch.

[gpleda.org commit robot (gpleda-launchpad-robot)]

Bug was fixed by a commit
git master commit 9fb2513621a4e090dd0fdb7579249b94e62cc8e4
http://git.geda-project.org/geda-gaf/commit/?id=9fb2513621a4e090dd0fdb7579249b94e62cc8e4

commit 9fb2513621a4e090dd0fdb7579249b94e62cc8e4
Author: Peter TB Brett <email address hidden>
Commit: Peter TB Brett <email address hidden>

    gschem: Autoplace netname attributes when they are initially added.

    Extension originally written by Patrick Bernaud, with minor changes by
    Peter Brett.

    Closes-bug: lp-698800