Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
The use of the right mouse button to get back one level in handler
hierarchy is very convenient for me. It's a feature I learned to
love with QCad
The concept of a hierarchy of tools is one of the aspects I explicitly
dislike with qcad. It is a pain to constantly move up and down this
hierarchy and keep the current position in the hierarchy in mind. The
most important tools should be readily available, no matter what.
I see your point about e.g. creating lines and trimming are very common
operations
(in mechanical CAD) that are very likely to appear in rapid succession.
Despite the fact I like the hierarchical tool model, I earlier
considered a dynamic
toolbox (e.g. popping up centered under your cursor on right click ;-)
that gets
filled by the user via dragging certain operations into it in a special
mode.
(the dynamic toolbox holds just links, so the original menu/static
toolboxes are unmodified)
One such toolbox to my taste can contain 9 tools (quadratic icons), but
there would be no
problem to provide a "shelf" of such toolboxes, so a user can assemble
them for different phases.
Would this appeal to you in future versions of Varkon (and gEDA)?
Btw, I see no reason, why the cursor is positioned on top of the list on
right-click menues.
Centering reduces the require average mouse motion by 1/2 and makes it
less likely,
that the menu has to be displayed atop the cursor.
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