On 8/3/07, Thomas Worthington <tww@...1737...> wrote:
What's so sacred about alt-mouse0 that it can't be mapped while alt-v can? Seriously, is there a big technical hitch with doing that?
Nothing sacred, except that Alt+mouse is processed in a lot more places because it has a lot of different functions in different contexts. If you're willing to search all these contexts and update them all with Meta option, go ahead. Note however that if you submit a patch, you will be responsible for maintaining it and making sure this option does not break as Inkscape develops, because I somehow don't think there will be lots of users of this option so you'll need to watch out for yourself. BTW, you will also need to patch all tutorials and documentation in many places. Is it really worth it?
If there is then fine, there's plenty of other more important things. I just don't get this idea that there's some principle at stake in using alt that's so important that every single Linux machine must be changed from its default settings rather than allow some other key to be used instead!
Just think about it: what is easier for a user, remap and relearn dozens of functions in a complex program that he uses a lot (and if you need Alt+mouse, you really are using Inkscape a lot - casual users can do very well without it), or remap and relearn a single function, less frequently used, in a window manager?