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[Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx>]

On Apr 1, 2015, at 14:10, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi folks,

I'm making this thread so Bob has a place to bring up his usability problems.  I have a hard time following the mailing list when threads diverge, and making multiple threads really helps me out.

Adam Wolf
___________________Bob Gustafson writes:

Thanks much Adam.

I’m reposting below my Mac usability mails taken from the “GAL questions (with regarding 3d-viewer)” thread

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I just now downloaded your OS X nightly build (both debug and regular) on my wife’s Mac mini. She does not like the trackpad and has an Apple Mouse (latest model) -> more or less a standard Mac (it does have a Cinema 30 from a previous Mac).

When I create a board, add some chips and wires, I have difficulty in controlling the circuit on the screen. Whenever I touch the top of the mouse (one finger or two), the circuit layout zooms wildly. It doesn’t matter whether I stroke the mouse up and down or left-right, the circuit zooms big (bigger than the screen) or tiny. No panning action from the mouse.  This is with both the eeschema and pcbnew views.

Perhaps I have my mouse preferences set incorrectly, but other applications work just fine. With LibreOffice or Preview, I can easily pan (one finger) in all directions without causing any zoom.

This is close to the same action I see on my Mac Laptop.

If this is the normal operation of KiCad on the Mac, I can’t see how it can be a release version.

Bob G

> On Apr 1, 2015, at 11:22, Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Too bad..
> 
> On 04/01/2015 11:17 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>> Yup.  The trackpad stuff didn't get in before the feature freeze, so it will be a bit before it's in the tree.
>> 
>> On Apr 1, 2015 12:15 PM, "Bob Gustafson" <bobgus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> My Mac air laptop only has a trackpad. If I would buy a 3 button mouse, it would be one more piece of klim-bim to bring along. 
>> 
>> The advantage of the built-in trackpad is that I can have the whole laptop on my lap. Difficult to find a suitable place for the mouse in that environment.
>> 
>> Thanks for your suggestion though.
>> 
>> Bob G
>> 
>> On 04/01/2015 09:06 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>>> Bob,
>>> 
>>> You can use a 3 button mouse, right?  KiCad explictly states in the docs that it requires a 3 button mouse.
>>> 
>>> Adam Wolf
>>> Cofounder and Engineer
>>> W&L
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> On 04/01/2015 07:34 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
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