Re: gEDA-user: git HEAD PCB now supports user-defined holes in polygons

[Armin Faltl <armin.faltl@xxxxxx>]

kai-martin knaak wrote:
> Back in 1999 Microstation by Bentley did it this way:
>
> left click = do the default action
>
> right-click-drag = a horizontal menu with several icons representing 
> different modes of the tool appears. The icon that is highlicghted on mouse 
> button release is executed.
>
> right-click = the horizontal appears. Left-click on an icon makes this mode 
> the default of the tool. 
>
> That way you can deal with a multitude of modes and get an intuitive way to 
> configure the default to your own, special needs.  OK, this is certainly too 
> much for pcb in its current state. But it shows, what a powerful GUI can do.
>   
Right click is a very ergonomic action so I'd like to reserve it for 
something IMO
more important: the ESC functionality in routing, i.e. break a trace and 
restart a new
one. So for a tool-box popup I'd prefer shift-left-click or maybe 
shift-right click or
one of the zilion of other mous buttons I have ;-)

The use of the right mouse button to get back one level in handler 
hierarchy is very
convenient for me. It's a feature I learned to love with QCad and 
implemented in
my GUI-demo (with some known glitches) visible at www.varkon.org.
I also prefer assignment of view operations to the middle mouse 
button/wheel as
a clear concept: scroll = zoom, drag = pan.
(in space it's a bit more complicated: scroll is move along camera axis, 
drag = move traverse,
Ctrl-drag = rotate in space, alt-scroll = change perspective angle,...)

Regards, Armin



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