On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Samuel A. Falvo II wrote: <snip>
>Here's a possible suggestion for compromise:- > >Retain the current, keyboard-centric user interface. There is no need >to change it, and on top of that, you'd P-off a whole lot of currently >happy users. But for those who are new to the product, enable a mode >of operation whereby when the mouse hovers over an item for, say, 2 >seconds, a semi-transparent balloon would pop-up listing the keyboard >commands that are valid and applicable to that object. As soon as the >mouse moves off that object, the balloon disappears and the process >repeated. > >To retain the old-style user interface, just go into your settings and >turn off "balloon help." > I would hate having an extra function I wouldn't ever use (the extra bloat, compile time and whatever). What about forking the gtk hid, so we would have a gtk hid that works as now and another that has balloon or even some extra clicky-clicky feature? Of course, it would make more sense if HIDs could be loaded runtime :) Before that, there could be 2 binaries and on download and/or install and/or ./configure the user could choose. I'm not sure how comfortable to manage 2 branches of the mostly same HID with cvs, it's more or less ok with SVN (but means extra work of course). Igor2 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user