GUI layout driven flow improvements

Thanks to flayout and Thomas’ PR we can now link gdsfactory inside klayout and instantiate all the generic cells. This allows to convert any code driven gdsfactory PDK into a klayout GUI editable layouts. (Disclaimer: we still recommend a pure python code driven flow for complex layouts.)

• modify Pcell values without getting a strange error due to deleting cells klayout issue
• convert gdspy paths into klayout compatible paths
• remember gdsfactory packages path. So it does not ask you for their location everytime
• Test on Linux
• Test on Windows
• Test on MacOs
• show in menu and group all gdsfactory macro menus inside a gdsfactory menu PR
• name is automatically computed, instead of entered, so we can live update cell parameters without having to change the name

@thomasdorch @flaport @lukasc-ubc

[Jan-David-Black]

I think you need to install gdsfactory on your MacOS python

I seem to not fully understand: do you mean system level python? Should it not work with conda environments?

@Jan-David-Black can you try this on MacOS too, and see if gdstk can be imported there too?

I will. (I’ll edit as soon as it’s done)

Due to relatively poor adaption of 3.11 so far I would prefer having the opportunity to stay with 3.10. Which will be possible as soon as @thomasdorch’s build is up.

[thomasdorch]

Eventually I hope to get the klayout-gui package in conda-forge but for the moment I can just generate another build with 3.10. I’ll edit this once it’s up.