[qet] Some sugestions

[Miran <miran.zorman@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Developers!

I find your project qelectrotec and it is first open source software to  
create electric diagrams that could envolve in real usefull tool. I try  
the version 0.3. It is very good start.
I have no expirience in development (C++) and i do not know what the  
problems are for implementing some new functionalities, but i have some  
sugestions:

1. Possibility to add basic shapes to shematic: line, polygon, circle,  
rectangle
2. Possibility to change properties of basic elelments: line thicknes,  
colour, style (solid, dotted, dashed...), fill (rectangle, circle):  
colour, hatching, bitmap, tranparency
3. Posibility to change fonts: style, size, alignement, spacing...
4. Possibility to change wire (conductor) properties – line thikness, line  
colour, name properties: font size, orientation, position....
5. Fields on the page could be visible with shading (transparent colour in  
bacground) and/or with transparent marking (eg. 2C, 7A, 9F etc.). Usefull  
if you can't see the label on the top and/or left , bacause of using zoom.  
Usefull if you want to name the elements regard to the field.
6. Printing: selection of borders / margins (space form page border to  
header – drawing)
7. On the schematic single left click selects element, double click  
selects the elements property – tekst field... Right click can open the  
element properties
8. Selecting of action: for example: put element on schematic – select  
action with left click: every left click puts the element on canvas  
(shematic), cancel action: right click. Same for wires and other actions  
on canvas
9. Possibility to select default directory for saving tamplates, elements,  
settings,.. not only user created
10. Possibility to add some new properties to single element already on  
the schematic (text, line...)
11. Possibility to group elements, primitive shapes and wires on shematics
12. Posibility to save group of elements, inter-conections, basic shapes  
...  to tamplate
13. Selecting default grid size and snap to grid (1,2,5,10). On the other  
hand possibility to place element regardles of the grid (for example with  
holding CTRL key while placing). Valid for both shematic and creating of  
elements
14. Creating element: possibility to select text alignement (left, right,  
center), selecting font typeface, colour, ….
15. Drawing tamplates:
	1. Select dimensions: pixel, relative, mm (inch);..
	2. Select diferent fonts in the fileds
	3. Input more lines in the filed (now is that possible with copy paste  
from another source)
	4. Selecting alignement for the field
	5. Selecting different font properties for diferent lines (or words or  
characters)
	6. Select font properties in the field – typeface, size, spacing, …..
16. Change default font size for elements for 9 to 8, default position  
left (now right). I know – text alignement! But this shoud be solved with  
field propertys of element.
17. Connected pins should be not shown  or should be different from  
unconnected
18. Automatic crossreferences for wires with same name – previous /next  
folio (over several pages) and for split elements: switch contacts on same  
or different pages
19. Automatic references of elements – coils, switches, valves,... in the  
form page.coloumnrow or page.coloumn  (example: -K1.4F, -S12.3B, or – user  
selectable -K1.4, -S12.3,...).
20. Automatic references of contacts – coils in form /page.coloumn

With best regards

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Miran