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Subject: Re: [geda-user] off-topic: key bindings
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:05 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> Respectfully that is a little condescending to the users. They may
>> have come from xyz commercial suite and have bindings they like. We
>> don't try to tell people which workflow to use. Likewise we should
>> leave them to their key bindings. Our job is to make the tool great
>> not to save people from themselves.
>
> And likely that xyz company had a group of specialists choosing the
> hotkeys to maximize performance.  My point wasn't "we should force
> them to use our bindings" it was "we shouldn't expect them to know how
> to set up bindings from scratch" and "we shouldn't expect the users to
> have to learn new keybindings just because we changed our minds"

Ok sorry I did not read it that way.

> We haven't changed out keybindings because our users are used to them.
> PCB did add a way to change the keybindings if you wanted different
> ones, but we left the defaults alone.  If a user wants to fiddle, they
> can fiddle.

Ok I forgot that PCB had that.

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