X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com From: Kai-Martin Knaak Subject: Re: [geda-user] Gschem Menus Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 13:25:37 +0200 Organization: Institut =?ISO-8859-1?Q?f=FCr?= Quantenoptik Lines: 76 Message-ID: References: <382D3CA1-907A-43FF-884C-77C830EAD94C AT sbcglobal DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Complaints-To: usenet AT ger DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.75.103.103 User-Agent: KNode/4.13.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id s83BOXBU025006 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Edward Hennessy wrote: > The following menu item launches a dialog box with more functionality > than the menu item advertises: > > Snap Grid Spacing... O Shift+S IMHO, accels with a modifier are a pain to use and remember. Why not bind this dialog to a simple G as in "Grid"? After all, this is what it is - a dialog for all the grid stuff. > The following menu item cycles between three snap modes: > > Toggle Snap On/Off O S > > The following three menu items open the same dialog box: > > Color... E O > Line Width & Type... E W > Fill Type... E F In the long run, this dialog should be merged with the general attribute editor. It is disconnecting to not be able to use EE to manipulate the properties of graphical objects. In the meantime, I'd go with EW, because this was the only accel of the three I bothered to learn and use. > What would be the best way to make these menu items better suited to > a new user without wrecking keyboard accelerators for veteran users? I don't think any change on the above accels are going to break long grown habits. * The snap size dialog and its accel is fairly new. No old farts habits here. * Working without a grid wrecks the ability to connect. It is nice to be able to switch off the grid. But I'd be surprised if anyone uses it regularly during schematic capture. I would even endorse a removal of this particular accel. I had this the action is triggered accidentally. * Schematics capture is mostly about symbols and connections. A dialog to manipulate color, type and width of graphical objects is not on the list of actions frequently needed for this task. Thank you for working on the UI of gschem! I use the current git head of geda right now. The unified dialogs are very welcome. All the best, ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak tel: +49-511-762-2895 Universität Hannover, Inst. für Quantenoptik fax: +49-511-762-2211 Welfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover http://www.iqo.uni-hannover.de GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Knaak+kmk&op=get