Re: [Kicad-developers] HotKey user model

2019-04-26 Thread Michael Kavanagh
I suppose " doing an immediate action and selecting the tool" has the best of both worlds, but off the top of my head I cant think of any other piece of mainstream software (CAD or otherwise) that does this. I think I'd lean also towards 'hotkey activates the tool' seeing as its the most common.

Re: [Kicad-developers] HotKey user model

2019-04-26 Thread Jeff Young
Hi JP, > On 26 Apr 2019, at 19:12, jp charras wrote: > > Le 26/04/2019 à 19:21, Jeff Young a écrit : >> I’ve been talking to Wayne about the ‘W’ and ‘X’ hotkeys. It appears the >> design goal is to have these be immediate actions (that is, they start a >> wire or a track, rather than just

Re: [Kicad-developers] HotKey user model

2019-04-26 Thread Tomasz Wlostowski
On 26/04/2019 13:12, jp charras wrote: > Le 26/04/2019 à 19:21, Jeff Young a écrit : >> I’ve been talking to Wayne about the ‘W’ and ‘X’ hotkeys. It appears the >> design goal is to have these be immediate actions (that is, they start a >> wire or a track, rather than just selecting the wire or

Re: [Kicad-developers] HotKey user model

2019-04-26 Thread Jon Evans
No, and I'll be adding that feature for 6.0 On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 1:14 PM Drew Van Zandt wrote: > On this general topic, is there a technical reason that one cannot assign > a shortcut key for "select whole net"? > > > *Drew Van Zandt* > > > On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 2:13 PM jp charras wrote:

Re: [Kicad-developers] HotKey user model

2019-04-26 Thread Drew Van Zandt
On this general topic, is there a technical reason that one cannot assign a shortcut key for "select whole net"? *Drew Van Zandt* On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 2:13 PM jp charras wrote: > Le 26/04/2019 à 19:21, Jeff Young a écrit : > > I’ve been talking to Wayne about the ‘W’ and ‘X’ hotkeys. It

Re: [Kicad-developers] HotKey user model

2019-04-26 Thread jp charras
Le 26/04/2019 à 19:21, Jeff Young a écrit : > I’ve been talking to Wayne about the ‘W’ and ‘X’ hotkeys. It appears the > design goal is to have these be immediate actions (that is, they start a wire > or a track, rather than just selecting the wire or track tool). > > Presumably this would

Re: [Kicad-developers] HotKey user model

2019-04-26 Thread Brian
My $0.02: I don’t want a tool to start doing something while my eyes are possibly off the screen (looking at the keyboard to hit the right hotkey) because my mousing hand may have drifted, causing the action to be carried out in the wrong place (e.g. starting a track in the wrong spot). If

[Kicad-developers] HotKey user model

2019-04-26 Thread Jeff Young
I’ve been talking to Wayne about the ‘W’ and ‘X’ hotkeys. It appears the design goal is to have these be immediate actions (that is, they start a wire or a track, rather than just selecting the wire or track tool). Presumably this would then also apply to ‘A’, ‘P’, ‘L’, ‘H’, ‘J’, ‘Q’, etc.