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[Markus Hitter <mah@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 09.10.2015 um 16:27 schrieb Moses McKnight:
> Kicad is a specialized tool, not a general graphics program

Perhaps you miss a bit the point that it still does the very same as
these generic graphics apps: draw lines of a specific width onto a
canvas. Generic graphics artists don't make their applications
intentionally difficult to use, either. They also work many hours a day,
every day, on a work.

The only difference besides all the automatic helpers (grid, rat lines,
auto-DRC, etc.) I could find so far is that changing the layer happens
more often and is more meaningful than in an artistic application.

Perhaps another one is that some functionality like stretching, scaling
or splines is rare, so one might find better uses for their usual shortcuts.

To my observation some 80% of the typical UI behaviour discussion is
about already existing habits and the search for reasons to defend them.
Not that habits are wrong per se, but 100 users happen to have some 150
distinct sets of these habits, so it's difficult to find an agreement on
such a base. I hope I don't offend anybody with this statement.

I like that this wiki page tries to find independent, measurable
reasoning, even if I disagree with one or another of the findings.


Markus

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