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[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

please don't assign anything vital to middle button.
All native Apple HW doesn't have a middle button and also no 
key-modifier
that simulates a middle button.

I can remember that some functions were moved away from middle button
for just this reason.


Regards,
Bernhard

On 22.03.2017 11:35, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I agree clicking with the middle mouse button is not particularly easy
> but doable. I would not mind assigning a function to the button, but we
> need choose carefully, since it is likely to stay for a long time. I am
> sure that changing the behavior later will cause a rage coming from
> users that got used to it.
>
> Any other ideas what else could be assigned to the middle mouse button?
>
> Cheers,
> Orson
>
> On 03/20/2017 08:31 PM, John Beard wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Here are two patches:
> >
> > * "Zoom to fit" on double middle click: resolves the Pcbnew side of
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1480868. Apparently this is an
> > AutoCAD thing, so it may make lots of people more are home in KiCad.
> > * "Centre on cursor" on middle single click. This is something I made
> > up out of thin air, but it allows people who don't like the
> > warp-on-zoom behaviour to be able to quickly recentre the view using
> > only the mouse.
> >
> > Both these actions are already available from the keyboard (Home and
> > F4). I think ideally these would be configurable as well but there's
> > no framework for that right now.
> >
> > The legacy canvas side is rather more complex, so I haven't attempted 
> > it here.
> >
> > My mouse's middle click is pretty terrible, so I rarely use it, and so
> > I'm a bad judge of how useful these patches really are. Fell free to
> > comment on/reject either patch.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
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