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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

Well, the bug has a heat of 22, so it’s definitely not just me. ;)

My change doesn’t alter the dragging or selecting behaviour.  All it does is keep an extraneous “Clarify Selection” menu from coming up (which I think all our users would consider a bug).  What we currently do in these situations is akin to popping up a “Clarify Selection” menu with one item in it every time you click on a unambiguous item.

In the corner case all my change does is prevent us from asking: do you want to drag the corner of a and b, or do you want to drag the corner of b and a, when in fact the two have identical semantics).  Everything after the menu (no matter which item you click) is exactly the same.

Same with U and I.  My change has no effect on what is selected, it just keeps us from asking: do you want to select the trivial connection containing a or do you want to select the trivial connection containing b, when in fact both a and b are on the same trivial connection.  Again, everything after the menu (no matter which item you click) is exactly the same.

Cheers,
Jeff.

> On 9 Jan 2018, at 15:27, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> Have actually confirmed that this is the desired behavior for this
> outside of you own objectives?  I'm not saying that this is or isn't a
> good idea but I personally don't drag trace corners around so I'm not
> sure what the appropriate behavior should be.  You should get comments
> from the dev list and users before you make a change like this.  As far
> as pushing this to the dev repo, if it's not too invasive I will
> consider it.  If it is a large change set, I would prefer that we hold
> off until after the stable release.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 1/8/2018 5:49 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> Wayne, if I could get you to don that old project manager’s hat one more time:
>> 
>> If we’re still weeks out from declaring an RC, I wanted to make one more plug for getting rid of the Clarify Selection dialog when dragging corners or using ‘U’ or ‘I’ over a corner[1].
>> 
>> While it’s marked Wishlist, it seriously impacts productivity when editing tracks, and I think most users would consider it a bug (particularly in the corner case when dragging the corner is clearly moving both the tracks listed in the Clarify Selection menu).
>> 
>> I’ve been running the patch for about a week now with no issues.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff.
>> 
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1708869
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