Re: gEDA-user: Tearoffs on popup menu in pcb?

2011-09-04 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Peter Clifton wrote: Have you ever tried the mode Preferences-Alternate window layout to allow smaller vertical size? yes :-) That mode moves the tool buttons underneath the menu-bar in a row, perhaps that is closer to what you were looking for. It is linear, but it is coupled with

Re: gEDA-user: Tearoffs on popup menu in pcb?

2011-09-03 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 02:28 +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: The list of tools reminds me of the pecularity of the main tool button area. Its 3x4-1 placement is quite un-ergonomic. The group of tools does not lend itself to any natural order. When an item is added, many buttons change

Re: gEDA-user: Tearoffs on popup menu in pcb?

2011-08-30 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:36:21 -0400 DJ Delorie d...@delorie.com wrote: I don't think it makes sense for a popup to be tear-off-able, since popups are supposed to be context sensitive, and if you tear it off you lose context. I.e. if you right-click on an element, you should get a menu

Re: gEDA-user: Tearoffs on popup menu in pcb?

2011-08-30 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 DJ Delorie wrote: I.e. if you right-click on an element, you should get a menu specific to that element, like select to select *that* element, rotate to rotate *that* element, etc. Such an operation makes no sense if the popup is torn off and

Re: gEDA-user: Tearoffs on popup menu in pcb?

2011-08-30 Thread DJ Delorie
BTW: What are Tools-None and Tools-Cancel supposed to do? I'm guessing None is the arrow/select tool, and Cancel cancels the current operation without changing tools (i.e. if you're drawing a line, suddenly you're not drawing a line). ___ geda-user

Re: gEDA-user: Tearoffs on popup menu in pcb?

2011-08-30 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 02:58:08AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 DJ Delorie wrote: I.e. if you right-click on an element, you should get a menu specific to that element, like select to select *that* element, rotate to rotate *that*

Re: gEDA-user: Tearoffs on popup menu in pcb?

2011-08-29 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Andrew Poelstra wrote: Right now in pcb if you shift-right-click on the main viewport, you get a popup menu with a few submenus. There are no tearoffs. Do you want tearoffs on the submenus of this popup? A rip-off means on the fly intuitive user modification to the GUI. This is always a

Re: gEDA-user: Tearoffs on popup menu in pcb?

2011-08-29 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:38:27 -0700 Andrew Poelstra as...@sfu.ca wrote: Right now in pcb if you shift-right-click on the main viewport, you get a popup menu with a few submenus. There are no tearoffs. Do you want tearoffs on the submenus of this popup? What about on the popup itself? Am I

Re: gEDA-user: Tearoffs on popup menu in pcb?

2011-08-29 Thread DJ Delorie
I don't think it makes sense for a popup to be tear-off-able, since popups are supposed to be context sensitive, and if you tear it off you lose context. I.e. if you right-click on an element, you should get a menu specific to that element, like select to select *that* element, rotate to rotate

gEDA-user: Tearoffs on popup menu in pcb?

2011-08-28 Thread Andrew Poelstra
Hey all, Right now in pcb if you shift-right-click on the main viewport, you get a popup menu with a few submenus. There are no tearoffs. Do you want tearoffs on the submenus of this popup? What about on the popup itself? Andrew -- Andrew Poelstra Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at