Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:53:42 -0400 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: Craig Bradney <cbradney@...242...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Panning mode modifier keys
On 12/19/05, Craig Bradney <cbradney@...242...> wrote:
My question was never about a particular mouse button choice.. but the choice of providing both shift and control modifiers to select the right click panning mode.
But I explained that - it was only because nothing else useful was at that time suggested for them, so both were used for the same thing. Of course this approach should not be used for just any function, but panning is special. I see nothing wrong about "filling" the unused mouse drag modes with panning. It's kinda natural.
Now, however, I plan to switch Shift+rmb from panning to zooming into area, to make it more consistent with mmb and to make more functions easily available for people without mmb. If there are no objections,
No objections at this time (except that I fear anything you do will be extremely difficult to change later once people get used it) but I do wonder what inspired this choice of keybinding because I feel much safer when you choose keybindings at least one other application is already using.
I'll go ahead with that. Again, I see nothing wrong with reusing one of the essentially "parked" shortcuts for something else after we finally invented what for.
I think what Craig was getting at was you might want to use these keys for something else later. Changing keys people are comfortable with can be very difficult as you well know ;P so it might be better to leave them unused for now and pick whichever one is more important or consistent with another application.
Also if another project copied the bindings in Inkscape but we later discovered the consensus (and users of existing applications) expected something quite different changing it could be problematic.
- Alan