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["Rob Maris" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Timofonic: I'd suggest you to raise your awareness about this and then modify hotkey assignments from within eeschema resp. pcbnew. You could then evaluate if such modifications would represent a good path to some more homogenous appearance.

Having said this, there are of course no bug "danger" about this. It is solely a matter of possible default assignments for upcoming releases. It's not only a matter of unification, but also on efficient usage: Example: on drawing traces, I use four quite adjacent keys for this (X=start, V=via/layer swap, F=finish, Space=posterize track). The latter I redefined. Since Space was already assigned, I assigned "0" for coordinate zeroing.


Am 08.09.2015, 23:45 Uhr, schrieb timofonic timofonic <timofonic@xxxxxxxxx>:

> I think this would be a great usability improvement if the hotkeys are arranged homogeneously in both applications. This is >one usability issue that seemed very weird to me as trying to switch to KiCad and not used to complex design programs.
>
> I'm not sure if this change could be substantial to cause bugs in the upcoming release, that's something developers know.
>
> What do you think about it?
> On Sep 8, 2015 9:13 PM, "Rob Maris" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Am 08.09.2015, 21:04 Uhr, schrieb Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > What is your intention or goal with this?
> >
> > Oh, just a contribution to documentation, whether one could use it or not - that's his or her matter. I created this for >>an employee who's quite mouse oriented.
> >
> > > 2015-09-08 21:00 GMT+02:00 Rob Maris <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > > From the hotkey export for eeschema and pcbnew I created a libreoffice/pdf
> > > > sheet that's intended to provide a comprehensive view on the hotkeys.
> > > >
> > > > For this purpose, the hotkeys for both subsystems are put together, and
> > > > rearranged according to two criteria:
> > > > 1. Those with comparable functionality in both subsystems and especially:
> > > > the same key - are listed in parallel.
> > > > 2. The functions are grouped in function category, about to be in order of
> > > > usage in typical projects.
> > > >
> > > > Comments/changes welcome (however, editing the content collaboratively in a
> > > > wiki would be better, or intentionally a few people only take care of this).
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Rob
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