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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/1/2016 6:15 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> 
> On 2016-02-29 21:29, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> On 2/29/2016 3:25 PM, Tiger12506 wrote:
>>> I'm always accidentally deleting components when trying to cleanup a
>>> track that i didn't route correctly.
>>>
>>> I don't know if one is a good idea over the other, but I can certainly
>>> understand why someone would think that.
>>
>> Perhaps, but Ctrl-Z is much faster than selecting the track tool,
>> deleting track(s), selecting the previous tool your were using to resume
>> your work just to prevent accidental deletes.
> 
> Of course, but that doesn't solve the original problem of deleting the
> right thing.

I don't know how to solve the "I deleted the wrong thing" issue.  Even
limiting objects deleted to the selected tool can still result in
deleting the wrong thing of a given type.  I was under the impression
that the user was trying to delete a trace and a nearby footprint was
deleted rather than the trace.  That shouldn't happen without a
disambiguation menu.  If it is happening, we need to know about it so we
can fix it.  If the user actually hit the delete key when only a
component was underneath the cursor, I'm at loss on how to solve that
problem.  Getting rid of the delete hot key is not a workable solution.
 I guess we could add a disable all hot keys for users who can't seem to
deal with them.  This way they could only use the context menu or the
delete tool to delete objects.  That seems like a lot of effort for such
a small net gain.

> 
> So, this might end up in something like
> Delete => Wrong => Ctrl-Z => Move mouse a little => Delete => Still Wrong
> => Ctrl-Z => Damn, move again => ...

This user need to get their eyes or eyeglass prescription checked. :)

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard