Agreed. As long as it works consistently with other similar controls in the user's system, most users figure it out fine on their own - unless you throw a wall of text at them. That just turns off most people right away, I've found. I wasn't particularly happy with the wall of text in the project rescue dialog either, but couldn't think of a better way in that case.
Tooltip it is. Also I think I can make it more obvious in general from the UI. On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 10:33:40AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > A tool tip might prove useful rather than adding instructions to the > dialog itself. > > On 1/6/2016 10:30 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote: > > Just a small note: > > I think it would be good to also somehow carry over the text on how to > > change hotkeys like it was in the old dialog. > > I didn’t change a hotkey before and I didn’t knew if/how to do it before I > > tried the old dialog in the old version (and read the description there). > > > > > > Regards, > > Bernhard > > > >> On 06 Jan 2016, at 16:19, Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Okay, a couple of bugs have been pointed out to me related to how wx > >> handles "special" keys in various controls. Apparently OSX users can't > >> set hotkeys at *all*, and on other platforms certain keys can't be set. > >> I'm working on a fix for this, probably will have to rip out that bit of > >> the logic and rewrite. > >> > >> I'm not going to submit a new patch until it's fully tested on all > >> platforms, with all keys and in all of the applications. That'll take a > >> few days. In the meantime, hotkey assignment is somewhat broken. Wayne, > >> feel free to revert 6422 and 6424 if you want (or don't, it's up to > >> you), I'll have a working version soon. > >> > >> Apologies for the buggy noise. I'll have to test wx-related things > >> rather more thorougly in the future. > >> > >> -- > >> Chris > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> Post to : [email protected] > >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
