On 12/19/05, Craig Bradney <cbradney@...242...> wrote:
My question was never about a particular mouse button choice.. but the choice of providing both shift and control modifiers to select the right click panning mode.
But I explained that - it was only because nothing else useful was at that time suggested for them, so both were used for the same thing. Of course this approach should not be used for just any function, but panning is special. I see nothing wrong about "filling" the unused mouse drag modes with panning. It's kinda natural.
Now, however, I plan to switch Shift+rmb from panning to zooming into area, to make it more consistent with mmb and to make more functions easily available for people without mmb. If there are no objections, I'll go ahead with that. Again, I see nothing wrong with reusing one of the essentially "parked" shortcuts for something else after we finally invented what for.
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