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[Michael Kavanagh <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I suppose "<key> doing an immediate action and <shift><key> selecting the
tool" has the best of both worlds, but off the top of my head I cant think
of any other piece of mainstream software (CAD or otherwise) that does this.

I think I'd lean also towards 'hotkey activates the tool' seeing as its the
most common.

Cheers,
Michael

On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 19:47, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi JP,
>
> > On 26 Apr 2019, at 19:12, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Le 26/04/2019 à 19:21, Jeff Young a écrit :
> >> I’ve been talking to Wayne about the ‘W’ and ‘X’ hotkeys.  It appears
> the design goal is to have these be immediate actions (that is, they start
> a wire or a track, rather than just selecting the wire or track tool).
> >>
> >> Presumably this would then also apply to ‘A’, ‘P’, ‘L’, ‘H’, ‘J’, ‘Q’,
> etc.  (None of these perform an immediate action today, right?)
> >
> > In short: Yes. This is how the hotkeys worked, previously.
> >>
> >> Do we want there to be some related way to select the tools?  That is,
> if ‘Q’ places a no-connect then shift-Q would select the no-connect tool?
> If yes, would these be separately editable, or would they simply follow
> whatever the user changed the main hotkeys to?
> >>
> >> Or is there some other facility that’s already supposed to work for
> tools?
> >
> > Why do you want to change the previous behavior? Is it not good?
> >
>
> It was already changed.  I don’t know when or why.
>
> I don’t have a problem with <key> doing an immediate action and
> <shift><key> selecting the tool, but that’s not how it works today.
>
> (Note that I don’t have a problem with the other way either.  As long as
> all the tools are consistent.)
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
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