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Re: 5.1 Hotkey problems

 

Hi Ian-

On 2019-06-11 12:56, Ian McInerney wrote:
Somewhat in relation to the patch I just sent, 5.1 currently has some
hotkey issues with the default hotkeys that are being shipped with it,
namely with pcbnew where:
Paste is a duplicate hotkey of Add Microvia (both have Ctrl-V)
Add a similar zone has an invalid hotkey (it is currently ctrl+shift+.
)
Routing options has an invalid hotkey (it is currently ctrl+shift+, )

The invalid hotkeys I think can be modified to simply be the upper
symbol of those keys, so:
Add a similar zone: ctrl+>
Routing options: ctrl+<
These make sense to me.  I suspect that the greater-than/less-than 
symbol is fairly accessible on most keyboards.
As for the duplicate, what hotkey should add microvia be moved to?
I think that the microvia hotkey is OK here as it is only enabled when 
paste is disabled, specifically when we are routing.  I don't think 
that's a duplicate.  Both actions seem to work appropriately for me when 
using pcbnew.  Do they cause issues on non-Linux platforms?
-Seth


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