Mail Archives: geda-user/2011/12/09/08:00:39
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 12:14:12PM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 06:20 -0700, John Doty wrote:
> > Recent versions of gschem select all interconnected net segments when you click on a selected net segment. Cute, but not very useful. How often do you delete, copy, or move an entire net?
> >
> > On the other hand, deleting, copying, or moving a circuit fragment, including net segments, is a very common operation. Normally, shift-click on a selected object deselects that object, allowing you to fine-tune a selection before a group operation.
> >
> > However, the new cuteness interferes with this in an unpredictable way. Shift-click on some selected net segments works in the regular way, deselecting them, but on others it selects the whole interconnected net. This makes operations on groups more difficult: you can't reliably select the group in question.
> >
> > Is there a way to turn off this misfeature, restoring consistent, regular behavior?
>
> Not sure.. but I'd be up for removing it (or making it optional).
>
> It isn't the feature its-self which is the problem, rather (as you say),
> how it interacts badly with other common selecting actions.
Actually this feature is useful (to me at least) in some cases, when
opening an old schematic and trying to find where wires go.
But I would not mind if it were bound to a modifier like Alt(Mod1).
Gabriel
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