Inconsistent wire/track behaviour between pcbnew and eeschema

[robotarmy]

Pressing 'w' in eeschema starts a wire wherever the mouse cursor is.

Pressing 'x' in pcbnew selects the track tool, but doesn't actually start drawing one.

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[robotarmy (ry-white)]

Actually, this seems to be in consistent for commands other than 'wire'. The move command, for example, moves whatever you're hovering over in eeschema, but moves whatever's selected in pcbnew.

[Artsiom Shchatsko (cioma)]

Personally, I'd prefer to have a setting the defines whether to actually engage tool functionality (e.g. start a wire) or just select the tool and wait for the mouse click to engage it. And it would be great be able to define tool behavior for every tool separately (i.e. I'd like tool to be just selected for drawing wires but I'd like tool to engage right away for editing component properties)

[robotarmy (ry-white)]

I could see how that would be useful for sure, but I think there's an historical issue of UI inconsistincies between eeschema and pcbnew, and those are much more of a pain for the user than one way of working or another.

What I mean is, my problem is with the inconsistency between two parts of the same tool, not the way that either of them works.

I wouldn't mind if both tools were 'hotkey to select tool, click to start using it' or 'mouse over where you want to start using the tool, then press hotkey to start', so long as the tools in layout and capture did the same thing.

[Jeff Young (jeyjey)]

This isn't likely to get fixed before moving eeschema to the GAL canvas/toolset, so I'm linking it in there.