Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
I see your point about e.g. creating lines and trimming are very common operationsThe 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 QCadThe concept of a hierarchy of tools is one of the aspects I explicitly dislike with qcad. It is a pain to constantly move up and down this hierarchy and keep the current position in the hierarchy in mind. The most important tools should be readily available, no matter what.
(in mechanical CAD) that are very likely to appear in rapid succession.Despite the fact I like the hierarchical tool model, I earlier considered a dynamic toolbox (e.g. popping up centered under your cursor on right click ;-) that gets filled by the user via dragging certain operations into it in a special mode.
(the dynamic toolbox holds just links, so the original menu/static toolboxes are unmodified) One such toolbox to my taste can contain 9 tools (quadratic icons), but there would be no problem to provide a "shelf" of such toolboxes, so a user can assemble them for different phases.
Would this appeal to you in future versions of Varkon (and gEDA)?Btw, I see no reason, why the cursor is positioned on top of the list on right-click menues. Centering reduces the require average mouse motion by 1/2 and makes it less likely,
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