Feature Request: better auto-generated netnames

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I'll be very useful and helpful on trace PCB, viewing native net name, ed gate, is, ovp VS NET-(R5-Pad1) and etc... I see it as tool as bus definition tool, in witch for every net we can can determinate it's alias name, witch can be exported into PCB netlist:

Now, for this effect need to do: Assign custom name net labels

KiCad Version

Application: KiCad

Version: 5.99.0-unknown-13243+g009bb7f033+deb12, release build

Libraries:
	wxWidgets 3.0.5
	libcurl/7.74.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1l zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3

Platform: Linux 5.14.0-2-amd64 x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, lightdm-xsession, x11

Build Info:
	Date: Nov 12 2021 17:21:14
	wxWidgets: 3.0.5 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
	Boost: 1.74.0
	OCC: 7.5.1
	Curl: 7.74.0
	ngspice: 35
	Compiler: GCC 11.2.0 with C++ ABI 1016

Build settings:
	KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
	KICAD_SPICE=ON

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I'm not sure this is any easier than assigning labels. Matching auto-generated net-names to actual nets is never fun.

However, I wonder if we could do better at auto-generated net-names. If only a single pin on a net is named (or all named pins have the same name), it should be easy enough to name the net Net-(U1-GATE).

I don't like the idea of having non-graphical net labels (for all the same reasons we have problems with netclasses and anonymous nets...) and I do like your idea of smarter auto-naming.

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