On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 02:44 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote: > How about some low hanging fruit in the mean time? > > * Always highlight the object a left mouse click would refer to. > This is done by many CAD applications. It would make many GUI > actions more predictable to newbies (and evveryone else, too). > I always have to tell newbies more than once, that they don't > have to select before move, or delete.
+1, have wanted to do that.. just never "done it" > * Even lower hanging: Change the mouse cursor on more events than > just "end-of-track". Polygon corners, straight segments, > components, text,... They all could have specific icons. That is a core PCB thing, not something I'll likely get to immediately. +1 on the idea though. > * Add handles to selected objects. Again, a wide spread > UI technique for 2D manipulation. Quite possibly +1, although it would have to be up to each GUI to render them in my opinion. > While dreaming about GUI fatures: > I have mixed emotions on the info pop-ups. It is nice to > just let the mouse hover to receive the information. > On the other hand, the text pops up exactly where I was just > working. So it is a bit distracting. How about some kind > of permanent detached status window? Would be nice I guess. The info windows were just a little hack to see what they would look like. As they stand though.. if they provided seriously useful information, it would be nice to activate them with a key-press so you don't become unproductive whilst hovering and waiting for the info window to appear. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
