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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 08:40:38 +0100
From: "Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gshem, pcb, arrow movement
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> On 2015-12-07 02:12:07 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Nicklas Karlsson (
> > nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <
> > geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Arrow keys may be used for movement and in gschem "background" is moved
> > > while in pcb pointer is moved. It would be good if both used same keys.
> > > movement of "background" in gschem with arrows is useful but arrow to
> > move
> > > pointer for fine tuning in pcb is quite a lot more useful.
> > >
> > > Then I use them earlier today I thought it might be worth a try to
> > combine
> > > them so that background is moved and pointer is moved relative to
> > > background although it stay at same point on screen.
> > >
> > 
> > The two should ship with the same mouse and key movement system.  There's
> > no reason to have them work differently by default, and it takes a long
> > time to get used to switching between them.  The existing behavior must
> > still be available as an option of course.
> > 
> > I also think pcb system is a bit better than gschem, but there's also the
> > question of which is more typical of other similar interfaces.  I don't
> > know what the default behavior should be exactly, but it should be
> > consistent.
> > 
> 
> The thing that gets me every time, is that you can only drag selected lines in
> pcb, and only UNselected lines in gschem (or is it the other way around?).

In this case pcb is a little bit odd and only allow moving unselected objects, unless several objects are selected? gschem have a nice future to cycle thru different selection possibilities which would be very useful in pcb since objects very often overlap.

I have been using it for weeks quite many hours a day and have written down a few small things then I found. To work efficienlty these small things may be more important than a lot of futures. I ordered three circuit boards last day and now hopefully I will have a little bit of time for improvements.


Nicklas Karlsson