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It's a UI pattern that I thought died in the 90s. When it works well, you don't notice the pattern is even there. When it doesn't, it looks janky as hell. Ther

It's a UI pattern that I thought died in the 90s. When it works well, you don't notice the pattern is even there. When it doesn't, it looks janky as hell. There are shortcomings to the current/recent state of Wayland (KDE hasn't had support for storing window positions until Plasma 6.4! HDR and VRR are missing from many compositors (and X11 DEs to be fair)! Fractional scaling doesn't even work right in many Linux applications!) but when it comes to design decisions, I'm mostly on Wayland's side.

IshKebab 1y ago
It did die in the 90s! Apparently for everyone except Kicad (and DesignSpark PCB). I bet Eagle does it too; that's even more of a UX disaster than Kicad.
- indrora 1y ago
  Most of the professional tier CAD suites do it as well. It's one of the Quirks^tm of that field. Newcomers to the field go "WTF??" but the old hats go "yeah and you'll learn to appreciate it." And you do learn to appreciate it. the cursor warping in KiCad is absolutely essential to high level operation because it means you don't think where you're zooomed to now, you point, you zoom, you've zoomed. Once you get used to some of the keyboard shortcuts to fly around the board, you get used to focusing on the center of the display rather than having to eye around looking for the component, which might be buried in a few layers of traces and vias on-screen.
  - IshKebab 1y ago
    > Most of the professional tier CAD suites do it as well. Hmm I'm not sure. I've used NX, Pro/E, Solidworks and Fusion 360 very briefly and none of them did it. Which ones do?
    - indrora 1y ago
      AutoCAD historically has, as does some configurations of SolidEDGE, DraftSight. It's much more a feature of specifically 2D CAD suites it seems; 3D comes with a different paradigm of movement, and in 2D CAD you're working in a different mindset: 3D CAD is almost all CSG, whereas 2D CAD is mostly targeted at emulating a drafting table.
- Ballas 1y ago
  Eagle does not do cursor warping as far as I know.

IshKebab 1y ago

It did die in the 90s! Apparently for everyone except Kicad (and DesignSpark PCB). I bet Eagle does it too; that's even more of a UX disaster than Kicad.

indrora 1y ago
Most of the professional tier CAD suites do it as well. It's one of the Quirks^tm of that field. Newcomers to the field go "WTF??" but the old hats go "yeah and you'll learn to appreciate it." And you do learn to appreciate it. the cursor warping in KiCad is absolutely essential to high level operation because it means you don't think where you're zooomed to now, you point, you zoom, you've zoomed. Once you get used to some of the keyboard shortcuts to fly around the board, you get used to focusing on the center of the display rather than having to eye around looking for the component, which might be buried in a few layers of traces and vias on-screen.
- IshKebab 1y ago
  > Most of the professional tier CAD suites do it as well. Hmm I'm not sure. I've used NX, Pro/E, Solidworks and Fusion 360 very briefly and none of them did it. Which ones do?
  - indrora 1y ago
    AutoCAD historically has, as does some configurations of SolidEDGE, DraftSight. It's much more a feature of specifically 2D CAD suites it seems; 3D comes with a different paradigm of movement, and in 2D CAD you're working in a different mindset: 3D CAD is almost all CSG, whereas 2D CAD is mostly targeted at emulating a drafting table.
Ballas 1y ago
Eagle does not do cursor warping as far as I know.