On 2007-December-18 , at 23:52 , bulia byak wrote:
On Dec 18, 2007 5:34 PM, Diederik van Lierop <mail@...1689...> wrote:
Anyway, I've used the "*" shortcut for now, which goes well visually with the "|" and "#" immediately above in the view-menu. Besides, I was planning to use some kind of blinking asterisk for the on-canvas snapping indicator so this would make this short-cut quite intuitive. I stole it from the star tool however, which already has shift-F9 assigned to it. IMHO assigning the asterisk to the snapping toggle instead of the star tool is much more usefull. Am I offending someone here ;-) ?
No so long as you propose another single-key shortcut for the star tool :)
Another thing: shouldn't we reassign or reorder the F1-F9 shortcuts for the tools? It's a mess now....
Really? What is the mess exactly?
I think Diederik is referring to the order or the keys in the tools' bar: F1 F2 Shift+F2 F3 F4 F5 * F9 F6 Shift+F6 Ctrl+F6 Shift+F7 F8 Ctrl+F2 Ctrl+F1 F7
Not exactly the most intuitive setting right? Rather than reordering them now and being forced to change later when some new tools appear, would it be possible to map F* keys to the tools, in order, whatever the tool is (F1,...,F12, Shift-F1...,Shift-F12)? Orthogonally to this, I would gladly see the one key mnemonics in the tool tips rather than the F* key. First because they're mnemonics and hence, easier to memorize (particularly given the current state of the F* keys shortcuts). Second because, IMHO the F* keys shortcuts would really serve their purpose only if they are in order, and if they are there is not a big benefit in displaying them in the tooltip (this is supposing that it is only possible to show one shortcut in the tooltip, if both can fit it, that would be great too). Third because Fn keys are not always easily reached on a laptop's keyboard (often specials keys such as volume up/down are set to be the F* keys and one has to press Fn+F1 to actually get F1).
I think I already filled a feature request about this a while ago. It is very probably being triaged, or has been already given the huge activity on Launchpad.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/