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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

The heat gets bumped up for multiple reports or when people click “this bug affects me too”.

Patch uploaded.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1708869 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1708869>

(The duplicate: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1503679 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1503679> )

Cheers,
Jeff.

> On 9 Jan 2018, at 16:06, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hey Jeff,
> 
> I'm not sure what a heat of 22 even means?  I don't see any comments or
> suggestions in the bug report where lots of devs and/or users gave it a
> big thumbs up.  I'm talking about getting some input on the concept and
> testing on a patch from other devs and users.  I can't remember, did you
> supply a patch for this?  I don't see one on the bug report.  I need to
> review and test it at a minimum.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 1/9/2018 10:39 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> 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
>>> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: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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