Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

In response to a message written on 25.09.2015, 00:19, from timofonic timofonic: Some more feedback. Just filter to get the relevant stuff, don't care about people sometimes acting rude. Maybe between that, there might be useful feedback. http://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=55079.0

Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

Some more feedback. Just filter to get the relevant stuff, don't care about people sometimes acting rude. Maybe between that, there might be useful feedback. http://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=55079.0 Version 4 stable branch rc1 released. On Aug 31, 2015 10:07 PM, "Attila Kinali"

Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

On 31/08/15 15:15, Attila Kinali wrote: An example where Kicad fails with external consistency is the use of the mouse wheel. While all EDA, CAD and simple drawing applications I've used in the past have the following mapping: wheel -> up/down shift-wheel -> left/right

Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

>The mouse wheel and navigation (as mentioned above). Make it consistent with other EDA, CAD and drawing applications: wheel -> up/down, shift-wheel -> left/right, ctrl-wheel -> zoom I disagree, EAGLE uses mouse wheel zoom and it is by far one of the most widely used tools these days. On

Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

cents. Mario Luzeiro From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua...@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of Attila Kinali [att...@kinali.ch] Sent: 31 August 2015 16:15 To: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement On Wed,

Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

I vote for having a qualifier key to tweek the meaning of the mouse wheel. Touching the mouse wheel and having the design zoom to 3 pixel size or huge size is not productive. Bob G On 08/31/2015 09:53 AM, Mark Roszko wrote: The mouse wheel and navigation (as mentioned above). Make it

Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:23:02 + Mário Luzeiro wrote: > I just give an quick overlook on that, I think one thing was not mentioned > was the consistency on the edition of parameters. > (For example the way that you insert a value of some type (ex a diameter, or > a position)

Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

Le 31/08/2015 16:46, Chris Goddard a écrit : On 31/08/15 15:15, Attila Kinali wrote: An example where Kicad fails with external consistency is the use of the mouse wheel. While all EDA, CAD and simple drawing applications I've used in the past have the following mapping: wheel ->

Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

Hi Chris, On 08/31 15:46, Chris Goddard wrote: > On 31/08/15 15:15, Attila Kinali wrote: > >An example where Kicad fails with external consistency is the use of the > >mouse wheel. While all EDA, CAD and simple drawing applications I've used > >in the past have the following mapping: > > > >wheel

Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

_ > From: Kicad-developers > [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua...@lists.launchpad.net] on behalf of > Attila Kinali [att...@kinali.ch] > Sent: 31 August 2015 16:15 > To: kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usa

Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:02:08 +0200 Attila Kinali wrote: > i would select the part, either "generic opamp" to be specified later, > an "AD8602*" for which i'd select a footprint later, or an "AD" > which is the variant in a SOIC-8 case. And automagically, it would adjust > the

Re: [Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:09:06 +0200 Attila Kinali wrote: > So, I would like to ask, whether there would be any interest of the > developers to work on the UI. If so, I would start collecting > points on the UI that are worth to work on and how to improve them. Ok, here is a

[Kicad-developers] UI and usability enhancement

Hi, I have been using kicad for the last couple of days and I have gotten the impression that kicad has a quite usable GUI, but there are lots of places where it could do better. Most of these are just small things, a little bit more info here, one additional button there, etc pp. I would like to