Route styles "save as default" doesn't work

[Chad Parker]

Reported by Richard Rasker on geda-user:

It appears that the Route Styles option "Save as Default" for new designs does not work(*). PCB always starts with the same (imperial) Route Styles and default sizes.

[Chad Parker (parker-charles)]

I'm having trouble reproducing this.

I've executed the following steps:
1. Launch pcb (gtk hid)
2. Open the route styles dialog by clicking the route styles button
3. Change the parameters to something else (12 mil, 34 mil, 56 mil, and 78 mil)
4. Check the "Save route style setting as default" box
5. Close the route styles box with the OK button
6. Quit pcb
7. Launch pcb
8. Open the route styles dialog by clicking the route styles button

I see the 12, 34, 56, and 78 mil settings that I saved.

[Richard Rasker (rasker-a)]

Hello Chad,

I believe you are right -- the route styles /are/ saved, it's just that everything returns to imperial units after quitting and restarting pcb; perhaps that is what confused me (or else I was using a PCB project template).
So this isn't a bug, really (although saving the general mil/mm preference would be nice).

My apologies for mentioning this, I should have checked it out first.

[Chad Parker (parker-charles)]

No worries.

I agree that the units should be a saved preference. I'll put that on the list too :)

Cheers,
--Chad

[Chad Parker (parker-charles)]

False alarm. Closing.