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[Michael Kavanagh <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bernhard, do you mean this bug [1] existed before the 3b085f0 "Pcbnew new
menubar structure" commit?

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1750494

On 21 February 2018 at 13:07, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just to mention… it has been like this before the patches.
> At least on macOS, there is still a “Preferences” menu entry below the
> “KiCad” menu bar entry (the “General Settings” dialog).
> Then, there is the “Preferences” menu… without those “General Setting”.
>
> Because there is a “Preferences” menu bar entry I didn’t look anywhere
else
> for the general settings.
> Took me quite a while to find them in the “KiCad” menu bar entry.
>
> Any plans to change this?
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
> On 20. Feb 2018, at 08:17, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello Michael and Jeff,
>
> It seems like we got our first small regression from this patch series.
> Could you have a look. Please note it looks like it is window manager
> dependent.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1750494
>
> Nick
>
> 2018-02-18 23:03 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> Indeed I did forget.  Thanks for the reminder.  Thank you Jeff for the
>> patches.
>>
>>
>> On 02/18/2018 03:02 PM, Michael Kavanagh wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Wayne. Please don't forget to merge Jeffs dialog changes which
>>> complete the Pcbnew menubar modifications. I have reattached them to
>>> this email for convenience.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> On 18 February 2018 at 19:16, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Michael,
>>>>
>>>> I figured out why we are not using IS_ACCELERATOR for these menu
>>>> entries.
>>>> AddHotkeyName() adds a "+Alt+" to the hotkey so this is *not* what we
>>>> want
>>>> so I used the original 0003 patch.  I apologize for the confusion.  I
>>>> merged
>>>> this and you 0004 patch.  We can make any tweaks to it if it's not
>>>> exactly
>>>> what we want.  Thank you for your contribution to KiCad.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Wayne
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 02/18/2018 10:10 AM, Michael Kavanagh wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> In every other app New, Open, Save, Save As and Print are standard
>>>>> hotkeys and not accelerators. They don't have the modifier key, so are
>>>>> the "standard" keyboard shortcuts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nevertheless, please find attached new patches for review. These
>>>>> accompany both of Jeffs dialog patches. Hopefully I didn't break
>>>>> anything, implementing the sketch modes removed from the dialogs
>>>>> involved fiddling with the GAL tools framework.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> Michael
>>>>>
>>>>> On 17 February 2018 at 17:27, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It should be.  We really need to get out of the bad habit of having
>>>>>> toolbar only access to tools and settings.  I'm sure there are some
in
>>>>>> the schematic editor, symbol editor, and footprint editor as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 02/17/2018 06:16 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Fill/Outline stuff is included.  Not sure about High Contrast
>>>>>>> mode,
>>>>>>> but it probably should be.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 17 Feb 2018, at 06:58, Gaurav Juvekar <gauravjuvekar@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Probably not too relevant, but can we have a workaround of
>>>>>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1575097 (hidden icons) by
>>>>>>>> adding
>>>>>>>> View -> High Contrast (Checkable like the "Flip board view")
>>>>>>>> View -> Tracks -> Outline (Radio button like the canvas selector)
>>>>>>>>                 -> Fill
>>>>>>>> View -> Vias   -> Outline
>>>>>>>>                 -> Fill
>>>>>>>> View -> Pads   -> Outline
>>>>>>>>                 -> Fill
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> to the menu entries?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>> Gaurav Juvekar
>>>>>>>>
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