This is coming in the next release of Kicad: https://forum.kicad.info/t/post-v9-new-features-and-developm...
The rate of development since V6 is crazy fast IMO. Very much an OSS success story.
The rate of development since V6 is crazy fast IMO. Very much an OSS success story.
We saw something similar with Blender. At a certain point it becomes good enough that for some professionals it becomes a viable alternative to its obscenely expensive proprietary competition. If those companies are willing to donate $500 / seat / year to OSS instead of spending $1500 / seat / year on proprietary licensing, they can get some developer to fix the main issues they run into. This in turn means the OSS variant gets even better, which means even more companies are willing to consider switching, which means even more budget for development. Let this continue for a few years, and the OSS alternative has suddenly become best-in-class.