Re: gEDA-user: More OpenGL ideas

[kai-martin knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Clifton wrote:

> I would love to get to the point where hitting "f" on a track
> fades out
> the saturation / increases the opacity for non-"found" tracks
> around it.
> I want to make the renderer capable of such effects, and make the
> application of them adjustable. I'm sure some good usability / human
> interaction designers out there can come up with some awesome uses
> for such features.

How about some low hanging fruit in the mean time? 

* Always highlight the object a left mouse click would refer to.
This is done by many CAD applications. It would make many GUI 
actions more predictable to newbies (and evveryone else, too).
I always have to tell newbies more than once, that they don't
have to select before move, or delete. 

* Even lower hanging: Change the mouse cursor on more events than
just "end-of-track". Polygon corners, straight segments, 
components, text,... They all could have specific icons.

* Add handles to selected objects. Again, a wide spread 
UI technique for 2D manipulation.


While dreaming about GUI fatures:
I have mixed emotions on the info pop-ups. It is nice to
just let the mouse hover to receive the information. 
On the other hand, the text pops up exactly where I was just 
working. So it is a bit distracting. How about some kind 
of permanent detached status window?

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