Re: [Kicad-developers] pcbnew: Right Click Context Menu

2018-02-26 Thread Jeff Young
The zoom / grid options on the context menu are available when using an interactive tool. That doesn’t really work well with the toolbar versions. Why are cut/copy/paste on the context menus? They must be the most known command-keys in computerdom. > On 26 Feb 2018, at 03:33, hauptmech

Re: [Kicad-developers] pcbnew: Right Click Context Menu

2018-02-25 Thread hauptmech
I agree that it could be improved; though I agree with Jon that messing with someone's muscle memory might make them sad. Editable context menus are the solution I've seen (and used) in other complex software. The heuristics that kicad uses to create the context menu are complex, so the

Re: [Kicad-developers] pcbnew: Right Click Context Menu

2018-02-25 Thread Jon Evans
To be honest I'm not sure I think those options should even be in the context menu, especially when you have selected an item. They are already on the toolbar and have hotkeys. But maybe some people use them and would be sad if we removed them :) On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 9:27 PM, Andrey Kuznetsov

[Kicad-developers] pcbnew: Right Click Context Menu

2018-02-25 Thread Andrey Kuznetsov
Hi, Does anyone else think the right context menu in pcbnew should have some items shelved into submenus? For example, this looks OK when you click on nothing [image: Inline image 1] but if you start using the right click context menu for what it was meant for, then all those Center, and Zoom