Hey team,

So I'm interested in working on the block system in librecad.  In trying to use librecad as a primary cad program (and qcad for that matter) the block system was feature I found myself repeatedly annoyed by.

Changes I'm Proposing:

1. I want to replace the "Add Block" button on the block widget with a "Create Block" button (or if other folks are wedded to having "Add Block" on the gui then adding a create block in addition to it, although I'm for removing it as I think it's confusing.)  The reason for this is that I think that someone using the sidebar is more likely to be creating a block in the current drawing and then wishing to add it as a block for future use, rather then creating an empty block and then going in and editing it in the block editor.  Otherwise proper scaling and block sizing are an issue.  Also, looking around the message boards for qcad, this seems to be a confusing feature for people.

2.  I want to create an "Insertion Point" tool for use in the block editor rather than defaulting the insertion point to 0,0

3.  I want to create a simplified tool for sending a block from the block list to the library so that it becomes available for other drawings.

4.  I want to, and this is something I'll need suggestions on from folks more familiar with the project, add a tag function to blocks similar to that used in autocad.  Tags would be user positioned and formatted text boxes within the block which the program would prompt the user to enter values for during insertion, or else use a default value.

5.  Lastly there seems to be a bug on block insert which causes the main window to stretch horizontally carrying the layer list to move far to the right, off of the screen.

I appreciate input, and any suggestions would be most welcome.  #1 is well within my present coding abilities, the latter 4 will be fun challenges!

-joseph

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