On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:11:34 +0000 From: bulia byak <archiver_1@...19...> To: jon@...235... Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Clone command
Bulia...this is an awesome feature. I wish the keyboard shortcut was easier to do with one hand.
I was going to comment on the shortcut too!
Developers will probably want to reserve Ctrl+Shift+N for New Layer or New from Template, which is the kind of thing that shortcut is normally used for. It would be very confusing for users to keep that shortcut given that it is already strongly associated with certain actions in many other applications and dekstops.
Adobe Illustrator doesn't seem to have anything directly analagous to a Clone tool. The way it works in Adobe Illustrator seems to be that you make a symbol of something first and then you use the Symbol tools, namely the Symbol Sprayer which has the keybinding Shift+S. I dont know how you plan to implement things in the future but you may want to reconsider the current design if it will inevitably need to be changed later.
Do other vector graphics tools behave similarly or do they have Clone tools? The Gimp uses the single letter 'C' for Clone (dont know what Adobe Photoshop uses) which seems reasonable.
For primary tools like this I think it is quite appropriate to use single letter shortcuts (or possibly Shift+Letter).
Most keys are already taken. Feel free to propose another shortcut.
hope my suggestions are of use, gotta go
Sincerely
Alan H.