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Re: gEDA-user: Advanced grids in GTK Pcb



Felix Ruoff wrote:

> Ctrl+- and Ctr++ are the suggested accelerators for this action by the 
> GNOME Hid-guidelines

With the vast majority of gnome applications zoom is rarely used, 
or not at all. Scroll is much more common. It pays in terms of usability 
to have the most common actions accessible with as little hassle as 
possible. That's why binding the wheel without modifier to vertical scroll 
makes sense in the context of Gnome HID. 

By contrast, zoom is one of the most common GUI actions in gschem and pcb. 
There is a down side to the bindings suggested by the Gnome HID: You  
always need both hands to navigate the layout or circuit. IMHO, this 
downside outweighs the benefit of bindings compatible to other 
applications.

BTW, Peter Clifton has this defined in his localized branch of pcb+gl. 

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