On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:34:04PM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > Andrew Poelstra wrote: > > > I like KMK's > >> click/double-click idea if possible. > > > > Very possible. But you would still be unable to toggle visibility > > independent of selection using the mouse. > > Why is this so? Are double clicked items automatically selected > in GTK widgets? >
They are in a GtkTreeView. It's a nasty, inflexible widget. > > > How important is this to people? > > Quite important. When working with four layer layouts I often > need to toggle visibility of layers while I keep working one > of the inner layers. > > > It bothers me, but only because there is no keyboard > > shortcut in Gtk for toggling visibility. > > I'd prefer to have both: Mouse click action and keyboard accels. > I've gotten the swatch-clicking to work by catching mouse clicks over the visibility toggle column and preventing those clicks from propagating to the GtkTreeView. You say you don't want to reach for a tiny area with the mouse. I have increased the swatch size. Take a look at: http://wpsoftware.net/andrew/dump/mockup3.png The swatches are far larger than the radio buttons, have more visibly clickable area (as they are square), and contrast with their surroundings more. > > > My plan is that you can still toggle visibility by <Shift>-num, > > without changing the active layer. > > > > The problem with this, of course, is that it will only work with > > the first 10 layers.. > > [ctrl-num] to select 11 to 20, [shift-ctrl-num] to toggle visibility. > [alt-num] to select 21 to 30, [shift-ctrl-num] to toggle visibility. > [alt-ctrl-num] to select 31 to 40, [shift-alt-ctrl-num] for visibility ;-) > Heey, I like that. For compatibility with lesstif we should switch <Shift> and <Ctrl>, but otherwise I'm all for this. -- Andrew Poelstra Email: asp11 at sfu.ca OR apoelstra at wpsoftware.net Web: http://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew/ _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
