On Monday 19 December 2005 19:13, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Craig Bradney wrote:
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Why would you want more than one mouse combination? (I thought mice with less than 4 legs or 3 buttons had been left to Darwin).
Think pen and tablet devices. Many laptops have touchpads with only two buttons. I'm sure there are more mouse like devices out there (think accessibility devices) so I don't think you assume everyone has a 3 button mouse anytime soon.
I still think multiple mouse shortcuts or action is confusing to the user and while I'm not sure what other developers are doing, I'm not prepared to waste every second shortcut or modifier key in an already limited environment. What if I come across a completely valid different operation for one of the existing shortcuts and need to use it for that, which would I choose?
I can understand the pen and tablet devices, but since when did that require the option of both shift or control modifiers for this mouse operation?
I must add, I'm not particularly worried if Inkscape devs keep this, but perhaps you might provide a preferred option for those developing other software to follow. Remember other OSS programs have other needs and other commercial packages to keep up with/overtake.
Craig