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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Zooming with no modifier seems to be the more popular choice in the
creative and CAD applications I have come across (and is certainly my
preference, because I use middle-drag to pan).  Maybe someone needs to do
the legwork to see which actually is the most common re. left-right vs.
up-down.

-Jon

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 11:28 AM Reece R. Pollack <reece@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Most applications I've used provide these "gestures" with the mouse wheel:
>
> Pan up/down: no modifier
> Zoom in/out: Control
> Pan left/right: Shift
>
> With KiCad I am forever zooming when I want to pan up or down. If we're
> going to retain the current behavior of zooming with no modifier, at least
> make left/right consistent with other applications rather than making all
> three different from everything else.
>
> Also bear in mind that Apple has insistently reversed the use of the mouse
> wheel compared with every other OS since the mouse wheel was introduced
> decades ago. I understand that they insist this is "natural", but it's only
> natural for Apple users which comprise a small subset of the user base.
>
> -Reece
>
> On 6/12/19 10:33 AM, Jeff Young wrote:
>
> I’m putting the kicad gestures into the List HotKeys dialog.  Problem is,
> I don’t know what they are.  So far I have:
>
> Highlight Net           ctrl-left-button
> Clear Net Highlighting  ctrl-left-button
> Pan Up/Down             shift-mouse-wheel
> Pan Left/Right          ctrl-mouse-wheel
>
> Others?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff.
>
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