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[fabrizio <zonkyu@xxxxxxxxx>]

hauptmech,
good morning, well the hotkey/accelerator patch is kind of parked in
my head for now, not so many people (like you and maybe me) seem too
much concerned about menu accelerators.

Current hotkeys functioning is in my opinion wrong and in your opinion
(and in the opinion of some other guys) great. I can easily live with
that, no problem.

As you kind of proposed I would then make  the "Place" menu with no
accelerators and no kotkeys suggestions. I agree too that the hotkeys
setup window (now a good html) is more then enough for users to learn
then.

How does it sound?

Regards
Fabrizio






On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:20 PM, hauptmech <hauptmech@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 7/09/2011 11:27 a.m., fabrizio wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>
>> let's sat that we change ctrl-alt-L to Alt-K we still have three more
>> conflicts: P, H, T.
>>
>> the following keys needs to be replaced because they are already
>> assigned to Place, Help and Tool
>> Alt-P
>> Alt-H
>> Alt-T
>>
>> Any suggestion? Once I change these 3 too, the correspondent  hotkeys
>> will be different too..... Are we all cool with that?
>>
>> Are we sure that we want to go a head with this? What we are doing
>> here is drawing a difference between hotkeys and accelerators which
>> maybe many future users will not get and which I am not sure we should
>> be doing.
>>
>> cheers
>> Fabrizio
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:54 PM, jean-pierre charras
>> <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Le 06/09/2011 11:51, fabrizio a écrit :
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> in attachment you can find the simplest patch I can think of to:
>>>>> 1) add the Alt- to all "Place" menu accelerators
>>>>> 2) leave current hotkeys behaviour unchanged
>>>>>
>>>>> is this whole idea good?
>>>>>
>>>>> ctrl-alt-L needs to be changed (in the hotkey default set up I think)
>>>>> because it makes my system log off ! can we changed it? what do you
>>>>> guys propose? any other hotkey cause conflicts?
>>>> K or O should work.
>>>>> I am not sure it will work in windoz/OSX.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let me have some feedback
>>> I forgot:
>>> Hot keys in Kicad sources are just default keys.
>>> do not forget hot keys are editable,
>>> so it can take a while before the best compromise about hot keys is found.
>>> Moreover this compromise must work fine under Linux, Windows, and MacOSX.
>>> Don't give up.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> I came late to this conversation and have trouble remembering the
> conclusion of all the various threads of this conversation; but I'm a
> lover of hotkeys so I going to add my thoughts. If I'm covering
> something resolved then it can be ignored for now.
>
> I agree with those that feel that adding a mouse click (tool start) to
> tool selection is bad for those learning kicad through it's menus and
> that listing a hotkey in the menu for something different (<W> or
> whatever) in counter intuitive.
>
> I don't think it's necessary that the power-user Tool-select-plus-start
> hotkey be discoverable through the menus. Being discoverable through the
> hotkey configuration screen is enough.
>
> I also don't think it's necessary that every menu item, even in the
> place menu, have a default hotkey. In fact for kicad to be accessible to
> new users I suggest that only the standard hotkeys be set by default;
> (ctrl-o, ctrl-w, ctr-p, alt-f4, etc). A suggested hotkey setup for power
> users (the existing defaults) can be distributed with kicad and loaded
> once by any present user of the defaults or any user that is interested
> in trying them.
>
> I personally would prefer having tool select and tool start not be
> joined. I use hotkeys extensively and start the tool in the wrong spot
> accidentally often enough to be a minor annoyance. I do sympathize with
> those who do like it and think it's a nice feature.
>
> Ideally recorded macros would implement whatever wicked combination the
> user wanted to apply. Not practical for kicad at this point. Maybe a
> solution is to have a check-box option for 'auto-start' of each tool in
> the hotkey list.
>
> A modal hotkey list is only partially useful; it usually takes me a
> while to learn my awesome keyboard layouts; more if I don't use the app
> that often. Having the list open while I work (or printed) is a must. If
> we have a html list, why not save it as a file and load it with a web
> browser?
>
> I'll stop there. I have some hotkeys to propose but I'll save that for a
> separate thread. I'm psyched to see any work towards usability and
> hotkey in particular! thx fabrizio!
>
> -hauptmech
>
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