Help-List hotkeys problems

[Novak Tamas]

Important GAL hotkeys "U" and "I" for selecting whole track are missing from the Help/List hotkeys.

List hotkeys is quite abandoned, altough it's the place where newcomers could find info at first.
There should be 2 or 3 columns with Legacy, GAL, Cairo. (do GAL and Cairo maintain the same hotkeys? Legacy surely does not)

[xzcvczx (xzcvczx)]

well both cairo and opengl are under the GAL framework (its the opengl canvas not the GAL canvas) so yeah cairo and opengl share key bindings

[Chris Pavlina (pavlina-chris)]

Is this really a starter bug? GAL and legacy have completely separate hotkey systems, integrating them is nontrivial.

[Novak Tamas (novak-7)]

When considering if a bug is worth to work out or not, I'd estimate how much work to expend. IMHO it's obvious that adding some items to hotkey list is
- very easy (there is a Help - Hotkey list already..gotta add a couple lines)
- very important in appretiation of KiCad (you can read opinions in KiCad forum, that KiCad is a "crap", as learning curve has some very annoying points)

[jean-pierre charras (jp-charras)]

No, Novak, it is not obvious, and certainly not easy (hot-keys are user definable)
The help is not a text.
It is easy mainly for guys who do not the job.

Now:
"you can read opinions in KiCad forum, that KiCad is a "crap""
There is my opinion:
In KiCad forum , there are too many guys who do not know the words "please" and "thank you"

[Chris Pavlina (pavlina-chris)]

What are you two on about? I just asked if this is a _starter_ bug. We use that tag for bugs that are supposedly easy for someone who's new to the codebase to get started. This is not that.

[John Beard (john-j-beard)]

This issue is a very limited subset of the overall issue, which is that no GAL-only tools are shown in the hotkey editor.

The issue for creating that editor is lp:1663896.

[Novak Tamas (novak-7)]

I've spent only a quarter hour with the source, and maybe I'm wrong but it seems that 'U' and 'I' (selecting parts of tracks in pcbnew) are not hotkeys.
There is a EDA_HOTKEY class describing keycode, infomessage, menu event etc. Menuitem "Hotkey list" generates list based on this structure.

Even if the problem Chris and John described (GAL-only/legacy/mutual hotkeys) will be solved, how will *all* hotkeys be listed (at "hotkey" I mean the common meaning for a newbie: "if I push a key and something happens: it's a hotkey"). Will 'U' and 'I' (in code COMMON_ACTIONS::selectConnection and selectCopper) be inculded in hotkey list?

[Novak Tamas (novak-7)]

Update: now I see

...
Select Trivial Connection U
Select Copper Connection I
...

at Help / List hotkeys of my nightly 9318.

I set this report to Fix committed.