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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] off-topic: key bindings |
From: | "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> |
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 3:05 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote: > >> Respectfully that is a little condescending to the users. They may >> have come from xyz commercial suite and have bindings they like. We >> don't try to tell people which workflow to use. Likewise we should >> leave them to their key bindings. Our job is to make the tool great >> not to save people from themselves. > > And likely that xyz company had a group of specialists choosing the > hotkeys to maximize performance. My point wasn't "we should force > them to use our bindings" it was "we shouldn't expect them to know how > to set up bindings from scratch" and "we shouldn't expect the users to > have to learn new keybindings just because we changed our minds" Ok sorry I did not read it that way. > We haven't changed out keybindings because our users are used to them. > PCB did add a way to change the keybindings if you wanted different > ones, but we left the defaults alone. If a user wants to fiddle, they > can fiddle. Ok I forgot that PCB had that. -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/
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