On 2007-July-08 , at 21:04 , Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On 7/8/07, jiho wrote:
I have always found this use of CTRL a bit counter intuitive coming from other software: most other software I know use SHIFT to keep proportion (well, apart from gimp 2.* which use complicated combinations of shift/alt/ctrl to do this seemingly simple thing). Would a shuffling of the keys be conceivable:
- SHIFT: keep proportions
- CTRL: scale by an integer factor
- ALT: transform around center
I've just added "Resizing" section to
http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/ User_interaction_implementations
Looks like Shift isn't popular to keep ratio in FLOSS so far. Sorry mate :)
Indeed, I saw that the resizing behavior changed in Gimp 2.3. I was remembering something complicated (such as CTRL keeps width, ALT keeps height and CTRL+ALT keeps ratio, which tended to fail depending on which key was pressed first) but it's much better now. And indeed CTRL seems widely used for this in FLOSS. On the other hand Photoshop, Illustrator, OmnigGraffle, OpenOffice all use SHIFT (this was the experience I had before using Inkscape). But I guess it's quite natural for Inkscape and other software to keep their own reference (and I got used to CTRL anyway so that's fine with me ;) )
BTW, in your wiki page I think you forgot some mouse actions for zoom in Inkscape (with any tool, not just the zoom tool): MMB zooms in, SHIFT+MMB zooms out and SHIFT+MMB+Drag zooms to the delimited region. I use those all the time, they are extraordinarily convenient (to the point that I find myself frenetically clicking the MMB in other applications and end disappointed when I don't find my beloved Inkscape behavior in those)
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