Re: gEDA-user: Keyboard shorcuts [WAS: Re: GTK RANT]

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:40 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> Peter Clifton wrote:

> The 10 most common actions/operations were accessed by single L-key 
> keypresses.  You could zoom in/out, pan, etc all just with the mouse 
> without moving the pointer away from your active layout area.  Not 
> beginner friendly but you could cruise in that tool!  You rarely needed 
> to move your left hand away from that one spot on the keyboard and your 
> right hand stayed on the mouse and there wasn't much superfluous mouse 
> motion.

Right, next hardware project for DJ then... design a build-it-yourself
kit to build USB HCI HID device with a row of buttons for driving PCB ;)

Kindof like this one for driving Windows:

http://www.mustap.com/funzone_post_76_best-microsoft-keyboard


-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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