Re: gEDA-user: Strange user interface behavior with gschem-1.6.2.20110115

[Colin D Bennett <colin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:12:03 +0200
Josef Wolf <jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:27:08AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > I have recently started to like the gschem Magnetic Net mode, now that
> > I learned to use Ctrl-click to put explicit intermediate points in the
> > lines instead of just clicking the two endpoints and letting gschem
> > route the line.
> > 
> > But this annoying problem you have encountered, where clicking causes
> > the line to connect SOMEWHERE OTHER THAN WHERE THE CIRCLE WAS SHOWN is
> > extremely irritating.  To reduce the impact of this issue, you
> > can manually place a number or intermediate points so that the final
> > âmagneticâ action to the target pin has a shorter distance to go.
> 
> With this work flow, you'd have as much (or even more) mouse clicks as
> without the tool. So what's the point of using the tool if you have _more_
> work with it than without it?

Well, I would really have the same number of mouse clicks in the
worst case, but the only benefit from magnetic mode is on the last
click, where you can use Magnetic Net mode to overcome Fitts's law
and not have to click *exactly* on the tip of that tiny pin,
especially when you are zoomed out really far to route that net.

Ideally, I would the opposite of the current mode: to turn off
Magnetic Net mode by default but be able to opt-in for a single
click by holding down Ctrl while clicking.

Regards,
Colin


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