Re: gEDA: user interface issues

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda-at-NOSPAMseul_dot_org>]

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>>>These are a few of the primary things I noticed that I think can easily 
>>>turn people away from this program, and if fixed, will have a great 
>>>value. Depending on how my search for other EDA tools goes, I may 
>>>download the source and start fixing some of these myself.

	I highly recommend you look at Kicad and Xcircuit as well.

>> We welcome developers, and have discussed these user interface issues
>> off and on over the years.  If you wish to make changes, please feel
>> free to hack and submit patches.  Personally, I wouldn't mind it if

	It is important to note, that I do not accept patches (that is
integrate them into CVS) that drastically change the fundamental UI
behavior unless they include some degree of configurablility or they
are overwhelmingly liked by the main developers (for example the "L"
net support was integrated because everybody agreed that they liked it).
However, that said, I love to see patches that improve the UI in baby
steps.

>> you could just select a component with the left mouse button, and then
>> drag it like in most Windoze programs.  This change wouldn't be hard
>> to implement.  Want to give it a try?  I wouldn't want to remove the
>> "select, type m, then move" action, but an additional action using the
>> left mouse button wouldn't hurt.
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	Stuart,  I'm curiousy, why do you need to use the left mouse
button for this?  I'm not a huge fan of overloading mouse buttons.
The left mouse button is selecting things and doing primary operations.
The middle button is for such single click actions like copy and move.
The third button takes on one of several configurable options.

								-Ales