Mail Archives: geda-user/2013/09/03/14:24:58
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Stefan Salewski writes:
> On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 22:36 +0100, Peter TB Brett wrote:
>> Stefan Salewski writes:
> [...]
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>> Well, it may take some time until I get to PCB, let alone gerbv -- one
>> thing at a time!
> Of course -- indeed I hope someone other than you may do it -- it should
> not need really programming skills. And it is not so difficult when
> there exist some well looking examples. I myself am absolutely not an
> artist -- but maybe other gEDA users are. I looked at the inkscape icons
> long time ago, they have shadows to look nice. It may even be necessary
> to test the final icons with different color schemes and different OS --
> I am not sure.
> [...]
I have been carefully following the GNOME icon style guide (and, to a
lesser extent, the Tango icon style guide). There are lots of nice
gradients and subtle shadings. ;-) Also there are indeed shadows on the
larger (22x22) variants.
>> Transitioning to GTK+ 3.x will be a huge hassle. It really is quite
>> hostile to multi-key keybindings, for example...
>>
> That is really sad. My personal view is, that we do not need multi-key
> keybindings for EDA tools, because the set of actions is limited, and
> most people do not like it. I am using VIM and GVIM for one year now --
> it uses multi-key keybindings much, it is OK for me, and it is justified
> because of the large set of available actions. Of course people
> customize to gschems multi-key interface may want very strongly to keep
> it.
>
I think that multi-key bindings are actually very important. In Emacs,
I like the use of complex keystrokes -- but in Emacs, I have both hands
on the keyboard. When using a CAD program I have one hand on the mouse
and one hand on the keyboard, and I find that pressing a succession of
single keys is more comfortable, especially during long editing
sessions. I keep meaning to design a gschem keymap that's optimised for on=
ly
using the left hand side of a Dvorak keyboard... maybe next time I have
to do a complicated design in gEDA!
I certainly wouldn't be particularly keen on transitioning to GTK3 if it
meant giving up binding to key sequences. :-(
Peter
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Dr Peter Brett <peter AT peter-b DOT co DOT uk>
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