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On Aug 10, 2007, at 3:12 PM, Peter Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 21:23 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:24:27 +1200, Karl Mowatt-Wilson wrote: >> >>> Having researched the AutoCAD behaviour, it appears that some people >>> *hate* it, >> >> I'd be one of them. >> >> >>> apparently on the basis that they feel no distinction between >>> left-right vs right-left drawing of the bounding box, >> >> I'd feel very uneasy if selection works differently once in a while >> for >> no obvious reason. Why rely on subtle differences of mouse gestures >> if >> there are still 105 potential modifier keys? I'd vote for the >> obvious and >> sugest to use shift as a modifier to include objects that just >> touch the >> boundary. > > Shift has special meaning for most selection code with regards > multiple > selection, so we shouldn't use that. > > What do other packages (besides Autocad) do here? > > Cad packages are terrible for inventing non-standard user-interface > quirks like this. Once learnt they can save time, but the it does > steepen the learning curve. > > What do non-technical drawing programs / office tools do here? > > I'm hesitant to make another option for defining this behaviour on a > per-user basis, as I tend to believe in getting UI behaviours right. > > On that note - I think I got the scroll wheel wrong when I added it. > > Most other Gnome / GTK apps use scroll wheel unmodified for up/down, > shift for left/right, ctrl for zoom in / out. We use unmodified for > zoom > in/out, and the two modifiers for the horiz / vertical scrolling. > Oops! > This drives me nuts on mac os x it is not consistent! I would prefer the standard way I even have a mouse that has horizontal scroll. I turned of off because of inconsistency of applications. > Peter > > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
