I was going to add a context menu entry for "next selection", is that obvious enough to you or do you think there should be extra hints?
On Feb 11, 2017 18:14, "Chris Pavlina" <[email protected]> wrote: > Very nice. I only think it needs to be a bit more obvious how to do it. > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 05:49:05PM -0500, Jon Evans wrote: > > Proof of concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfnXPosOHcY > > (when you see the selection changing, I'm hitting the new hotkey I made > for > > cycling through items) > > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Chris Pavlina <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > I wish I had thoughts more verbose than "yes" right now... Yeah, this > is > > > how most tools work, and it's quite intuitive. I would be 100% in favor > > > of implementing it this way. > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 02:21:08PM -0500, Jon Evans wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I had been thinking about proposing this already as a UX > enhancement, and > > > > then while looking through the starter bugs realized that lp:1154020 > [1] > > > is > > > > actually quite difficult to solve in a nice way due to the popup menu > > > used > > > > for clarification today, so I decided to send it out now. > > > > > > > > I propose that we change the selection code to "guess" at the item > the > > > user > > > > wanted to select, and let the user cycle through the set of items > that > > > are > > > > near the last point they clicked with a hotkey (and possible a > context > > > menu > > > > option "Next"). This is similar to how the commercial tools I've > used > > > work. > > > > > > > > A few more ideas about this: > > > > > > > > - The currently selected item needs to be indicated somehow. > Currently > > > we > > > > don't highlight all items when selected (for example, fields) and so > > > either > > > > highlighting which item you are selecting or showing it in the > message > > > > panel would be required for this to be friendly. > > > > > > > > - This would tie in nicely to selection filtering stuff that other > devs > > > are > > > > working on. Turning on a selection filter mode ("components only", > "text > > > > objects only", etc) would restrict the set of items that can be > picked, > > > and > > > > greatly increase the chance that the right item will be selected on > the > > > > first click. > > > > > > > > - Some commercial tools have "focus" modes, which are kind of like > > > filters, > > > > but they don't restrict what you can select, but rather influence > what > > > will > > > > be selected first. So if you are in "component focus mode" and you > > > select > > > > a component with a label on top, the component will always be > selected > > > > first. > > > > > > > > - We could map two hotkeys next to each other (for example "," and > "." on > > > > QWERTY keyboards) and let people step forward and backward through > the > > > > clarification list > > > > > > > > I think this change would make item selection faster, allow fixing > some > > > > long-standing bugs, and work nicely with enhancements to selection > > > > filtering that are coming. The one downside is that you would no > longer > > > > get a list of all items that are underneath the cursor, but I can't > see > > > the > > > > value in that information. > > > > > > > > Any thoughts on this? > > > > > > > > Best, > > > > Jon > > > > > > > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1154020 > > > > > > >
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