Name the interface in English on the English pages
English is QElectroTech's source language since PR #1390 (merged
2026-10-08), so the English interface shows English labels. Menu,
dialog and button names on the English pages were French with an English
gloss; they now use the exact English labels from the program
(lang/qet_fr.ts read backwards), and the glosses are dropped.
The Configuration menu is Settings in English, and the keyboard_control
mnemonics follow the English labels (Display Alt+A, Settings Alt+S,
Help Alt+H). Screenshot captions still describe the French captures
they show. The -FR and -DE pages are unchanged.
Customising QElectroTech: new page for shortcuts, toolbars and gestures (#1325-#1327 merged; #1363-#1365 pending); update Preferences, Drawing faster and Keyboard control
Call a folio a sheet, as the English interface now does (PR #1216)
Prose only: page URLs (folio_links, navigating_folios), image names, code,
XML tag and variable names, and French menu names are unchanged. Readers
arriving from older forum posts are told a sheet used to be called a folio.
Generated by qelectrotech-docker tools/wiki-folio-sheet/rename.py.
Arc tool: PR #1202 merged, drop its pending notices
Add 'Arcs and curved wires' (Arc tool, PR #1202); drop the merged #1200 notice
New page drawing_arcs, linked from the sidebar, mouse modifiers, the
shapes file format, keyboard control and drawing faster. Every mention
of the Arc tool carries a pending notice for PR #1202. The wire-hops
notice on conductors comes out: PR #1200 merged today.
Bring the wiki up to date with features merged since 19 September
Stale notices: drop #1073's pending markers (merged), and the #927 and
#929 "until it merges" notes (both merged a week ago).
New pages: "3D mouse" (#1022-#1035) and "Pictures on a folio" (label
from #1068, save cache from #1067, and the existing crop, transparency,
mirror and handle features, none of which were documented).
Updated: text grid for dragged texts (#1040) in mouse_modifiers,
grid_and_element_size and preferences; conductor colour toolbar button
(#929, #1005) in conductors; full contact comb option (#1010) and the
correct meaning of terminalCount in element_linking; three new tables,
drawing_item_view, item uuids (#1065) and read-only queries (#1066) in
project_database and the XML reference pages; folio background colour
remembered between runs (#1011); element information suggestions (#1021).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01G2d2Zi8BfrYRPX88zhaoFG
Drop stale pending notices: the drawing-workflow stack merged (#1042, #1050-#1057, #1060)
keyboard_control: placing a new symbol no longer needs a mouse, so the
'one real gap' section now says how to do it from the keyboard.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Drop stale pending notices: #1047, #1048, #1049 merged today; #1036; #896 (merged 17 Sept)
Add "Drawing faster" page and screenshots; update folio navigation for the merged #1036/#1038
- drawing_faster: place without dragging (#1042), right-click placement (#1041
merged, #1050), ranked search (#1051), Insert picker (#1052), S shortcut bar
(#1053, #1054), command bar beside the selection (#1055), Enter repeats
(#1056), command search (#1049), right-drag gestures (#1057); a pending
notice per section.
- navigating_folios: drop the stale #1036/#1038 notices; bars hide while the
folio's own headers show (#1047, pending); new section on the cell limit
lines (#1048, pending).
- keyboard_control, collection_browser, preferences: pending notes and rows.
- images/: 13 screenshots, all from one build of the open PRs.
Add "Finding your place on a folio": go to a cell, keep headers visible
New page navigating_folios covers going to a cell with Ctrl+G (B13, or
4-B7 for another page, as cross-references print it) and keeping the
row/column headers in sight while zoomed. Both are pending, PR #1036
and PR #1038 (issue #1034), and each section says so.
Also: linked from the sidebar and from folio_links, and keyboard_control
now says what Ctrl+G does on master (select an element on the current
folio), not "finds it in the Collections panel".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01G2d2Zi8BfrYRPX88zhaoFG
Document Ctrl+D duplicate-with-offset (#991, PR #993)
Adds Ctrl+D to keyboard_control.md's shortcut table and expands the
'Duplicating an existing element' section to cover it alongside the
existing Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V path -- which to use depends on whether you're
placing one copy by eye or stamping out a row.
Also corrects tips_and_tricks.md's 'Duplicate Trick' bullet, which
described an 'Edit -> Duplicate... placed nearby' feature that did not
actually exist until this PR landed. Now describes the real behaviour:
first press asks for spacing/direction via a dialog, every later press
repeats it silently.
Add a Mouse modifiers page
Holding Shift, Ctrl or Alt while dragging changes what the drag does, in
about twenty different ways, and almost none of it is discoverable. Two
appear in the status bar once a drag is already under way; the rest are
written down nowhere. keyboard_control covers the opposite problem --
working without a mouse -- so none of this was on the wiki.
Compiled by reading every Shift/Ctrl/Alt site in the source, 66 of them,
rather than from the ones I happened to know:
- Ctrl means "ignore the grid" everywhere, because the check lives inside
Diagram::snapToGrid() itself rather than at each call site, and it
rounds to the nearest pixel rather than freeing the position entirely.
- Shift on an element's own text moves the label instead of the element.
- Shift/Ctrl/Ctrl+Shift while drawing a rectangle or ellipse give square,
from-centre, and centred-square; centre-anchoring is decided at the
first click and deliberately not re-checked mid-drag.
- Alt on a shape's corner handle converts it to a polygon; Alt on a path
node or curve handle changes the node kind.
- Shift snaps rotation, skew and arc angles to 15 degrees.
- Alt+arrows nudge by the fine grid, Ctrl+arrows realign a text group.
- Ctrl+Shift is reserved by DiagramView for its own mode switch, so it is
not available as a modifier combination.
Two behaviours are called out as changing, with the open PR named rather
than described as working: element text not snapping (#927) and the text
tool having no cancel (#928).
Linked from _Sidebar.md and cross-linked with keyboard_control both ways.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CaKympWT3owLotCpEN2CFj
Document F10, keyboard Ajouter menu, real context menu, paste-follows-cursor
Four recently-merged PRs (#875-878, all 2026-09-15/16) directly extend
this page's topic and weren't reflected:
- F10 opens the menu bar (#877), alongside the existing Alt route.
- Edition -> Ajouter puts every drawing tool in a menu (#875) -- narrows
but doesn't close the 'drawing needs a mouse' gap: reaching the tool
is now keyboard-driven, placing its points still isn't.
- The keyboard-raised context menu now builds the real per-selection
menu instead of falling back to a generic, mostly-disabled one (#876).
- Ctrl+V paste now follows the cursor with Enter/left-click to commit,
Escape/right-click to cancel (#878) -- a genuine full keyboard path
to duplicate an element already in the project, narrowing the
headline gap to specifically an element's first appearance.
Verified each claim against current source before writing:
qetmainwindow.cpp (F10 QShortcut), qetdiagrameditor.cpp (Ajouter
submenu contents), diagramview.cpp (contextMenuEvent keyboard-reason
branch), diagrameventaddpaste.cpp (Return/Enter/Escape/right-click
handling).
Add Keyboard-only control (mouseless QET) page
Checked directly against ShortcutManager's registry, the menu
mnemonics, and the diagram/element editor keyPressEvent() handlers --
not assumed from the UI. States the one real gap plainly: placing a
new element from the Collections panel still requires a mouse drag,
verified by checking what double-click actually does there (opens
the Element Editor, not placement).
Linked from _Sidebar.md under Guides and cross-linked with
tips_and_tricks.md's existing shortcut list.