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[Tim Hutt <tdhutt@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's fine to like weird UI options of course, and I would never consider
removing the option, but I still think they should be off by default. If
you (whoever is in charge!) absolutely insist that they are on by default
then a Chrome-style info bar like this is pretty much essential IMO (shown
when you first zoom in):

[image: Inline images 1]

That's how they do it in Simulink.


On 10 September 2014 18:37, Moses McKnight <moses@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I also like the center and warp on zoom, as do others I know that use
> kicad. The option for "newbies" to disable it is fine, but please leave it
> as the default!
>
> Another thing the video seemed to not "get" was that you don't have to
> select something first to act on it.  I actually find that a good feature
> as it speeds things up - even if just a little.  It might be nice to add
> the ability to select items as well, but please don't take away the ability
> to simply mouse over something and hit a hot-key.  This is one thing I find
> to be a regression in the OpenGL canvas.  You must be in the arrow tool,
> and select a track in order to delete it.  Not only that but it only
> selects a segment and not a track.  So I find it *much* faster to hit F9
> for default canvas any time I need to delete a track.
>
> Moses
>
> On 09/10/2014 12:14 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 09:46:07AM -0700, Ouabache Designworks wrote:
>>
>>> Case in point you mentioned that warp to center on zoom was "weird" and
>>> that nobody else does it. gEDA also does it and it is really useful
>>> feature.
>>>
>>
>> Don't *dare* to touch the center warp on zoom :P
>>
>> I could write a book on how useful it is... well, I've almost done it
>> the last week (see posts on the opengl view)
>>
>>
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