Re: gEDA-user: More OpenGL ideas

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 02:44 +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote:

> 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. 

+1, have wanted to do that.. just never "done it"

> * 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.

That is a core PCB thing, not something I'll likely get to immediately.

+1 on the idea though.

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

Quite possibly +1, although it would have to be up to each GUI to render
them in my opinion.

> 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?

Would be nice I guess. The info windows were just a little hack to see
what they would look like. As they stand though.. if they provided
seriously useful information, it would be nice to activate them with a
key-press so you don't become unproductive whilst hovering and waiting
for the info window to appear.


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