Some more comments…
(1) Icon for Rotation Tool too ambiguous. Why not an arrow in a circle?
(2) Impossible to make tools icons in a list of icons of width 1 or
move them onto the tool bar. They currently take up too much space.
(3) Tools menu contains different content than icons in Tools toolbar!
(4) What on earth is an engine? I don’t think valuable screen estate
needs to be devoted to permanent information on Engines and Engine
configuration.
(5) Manipulation Tool - dragging a single unconnected (water) atom in
protein 1abe.pdb takes about a second. That is, a second after I stop
dragging the atom, the atom disappears from its original location and
moves to the correct location.
(6) What does selecting an atom do? I’ve selected it. It turned blue.
Then I click on Stick. And everything changes to Stick, not just the
atom I’ve selected.
(7) I turn Label on/off…nothing happens although I expected atoms to
become labelled with their element symbol…
(8) To crash Avogadro, open 1abe.pdb. Click on Van-der-Waals Sphere
(no need to turn them on). Click Primitives. Change the minus into a
plus for Atoms. Change the plus into a minus for Atoms. Bye bye
Avogadro…
(9) When in Manipulation Tool, it should be possible to quickly switch
into rotate mode because you can only drag an atom in the plane of the
screen (right?). If I don’t click on an atom it should rotate around
the last atom I clicked. Something like that.
(10) Manipulation Tools. Middle button. I couldn’t figure out how it
worked. As soon as you start drag in any direction it makes the atom
’bigger’ with a selection halo, but then the atom slows gets smaller
(i.e. further away). How to make it bigger? Why not include a clipping
plane so I know when the atom is at the right distance?
(11) Rotation tool - Why not just rotate around the centroid of the
atoms on the screen, rather than all atoms? Who would want to do the
latter?
(12) Bond centric manipulation tool. If I choose a bond, and then
click and drag in empty space, it should rotate around the bond,
instead of around the centroid of the molecule. The latter just
rotates my bond out of the screen…
I know you would prefer me to file bug reports or feature requests in
the SF trackers, but the barrier is too high for this number of
issues. With time, I will file any unaddressed issues…
Regards,
Noel