On 10/14/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
It is a very common operation, but nearly all the zoom operations are already mapped to the number keys and to +/- anyway, so in practice I find the zoom tool itself is not that needed.
True for professional users. Newbies may still use Zoom tool quite often.
What are your proposals for mappings?
Like I said - just make a complete profile with Xara keys. Of course it's not 1:1 because some things have no correspondence, but we can try to be as close as possible. This will (1) solve the F1 problem and (2) be a first step towards the grand Xara/Inkscape merge that we all talk so much about recently. I think these advantages are well worth it. But just uprooting F1 and some adjacent keys is not enough justification for a change, IMHO.
I think you are a bit too close to the problem. You have extremely strong preferences for the keyboard shortcuts, so it probably seems like it is extremely critical. However, I don't think you have any data to support the assertion that it affects every user. Case in point, it does not affect me since I don't use the F-keys when using Inkscape. I'm sure I'm not alone.
Case in point, when MS Word wanted to lure WordPerfect users, it made a compatibility mode with WordPerfect key mappings.
Secondly, if something matters even to a minority, we cannot bluntly disregard this minority. We are not a commercial entity who might afford to do that.
Please realize that by making the process of proposing keyboard changes be such a gauntlet to run
What are you talking about, Bryce? Did I make it too diffucult for Alan to propose his changes here? Nope, in fact he did so on my urging. Do I have to abstain from criticizing his proposal? Why?
Only by making it straightforward for other users to make tweaks to the keyboard layout can we be certain that we are optimizing the application for all users.
Certainly. In other words, if you feel so passionate about that, implement keyboard profiles. This way you can easily optimize it for ALL users. The patch we've seen so far just makes it Alan-optimized instead of Bulia-optimized, nothing more. Sorry this is not the correct way to go.
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