On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:12:57 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak <k...@familieknaak.de> wrote:
> Colin D Bennett wrote: > > > I really dislike the double-click idea. I often need to quickly > > enable/disable visibility of multiple layers, > > Nothing beats accel-keys for fast actions. In this case [ctrl-N] or > [shift-N] would be the natural choice. I don't argue that in general, keyboard accelerators are a very fast way of working. But I can't see them being the best way of quickly showing/hiding multiple layers. I try to work with left hand in the qwerty home position and right hand on the mouse (and no looking away from the screen). Pressing Ctrl-7 means I have to look down at my keyboard and move my left hand from the home position. Also, without numbers on the layer buttons, the layers after about #3 are not easily and without extra thought associated by a human with the correct numeric index. If I wanted to hide “vias”, “pins/pads”, and “silk”, it would be tremendously harder to figure out that I had to press Ctrl-6, Ctrl-8, Ctrl-9, rather than just click-click-click with the mouse directly on the layer's button. > > and the last thing I need is to have to double-click each button. > > A double click is a single action to me. > If you don't like double clicks, how about [control-click]? Control-click is better for me. Double-click requires my mouse to pause for a moment longer than a single click, introducing a discontinuity in the otherwise fluid move-click-move-click-move-click process I would use to show/hide a set of layers. > > I would much prefer a small region on the button (or next to the > > button) that controls active/inactive. > > Seems, our preference differs in this aspect. I'd rather not target > small areas for quick, fast actions. This is what we have now with > the toggle buttons. And I tend to mis-click every once in a while. I know about Fitts's law, but once my mouse is in the layers palette, I don't have to move far to hide/show many layers at once, so I don't mind if the Show/Hide button is relatively small. Anyway, I think it makes sense to have both keyboard shortcuts and a way to show/hide layers with the mouse. Perhaps useful for different purposes, but also based on personal preference. Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user