I agree. I find the two-letter commands to be very fast to use. They're one of the main reasons why I prefer gschem to the expensive proprietary program I used at my last job. But maybe that's just because I'm a vi user. ;)
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Mark Rages <markra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:22 AM, John Griessen <j...@ecosensory.com> wrote: >> >> If anyone has some time for planning user interface changes, I have a few >> low level ideas of what is stopping development toward "complex >> features with ease of use". >> >> 1. The double keystrokes in gschem need to become single >> strokes to match with every other UI anywhwere, so de facto standard key >> commands >> can be adopted for cut, paste, etc. >> > > The double keystrokes in gschem are excellent UI. Not as quick to > grasp at first, but very very good in practice. > > When you use a CAD program like gschem one hand stays on the keyboard > and one on the mouse. Using modifier keys (control, alt, shift, > meta, etc.) comfortably requires two hands on the keyboard. So > switching to standard controls would cause us users to constantly move > one hand from mouse to keyboard and back. > > The standard control keys were designed for users of word processing > systems, where both hands are already on the keyboard (and unadorned > letter keys are already spoken for.) > > Furthermore, the two-letter abbreviations allow commands to be grouped > together logically, which makes them easier to remember than whatever > random control keys happens to be available. > > I think gschem has a pretty good interface. I only wish PCB used the > same shortcuts instead of the random keys it has now. > > Regards, > Mark > markrages@gmail > -- > Mark Rages, Engineer > Midwest Telecine LLC > markra...@midwesttelecine.com > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
