Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: keyboard shortcuts for adobe illustrator and macromedia freehand + Low Hanging Fruit UI task + language task
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 21:13 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 21:07 -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:34 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
> It would be really great to have UI in our preferences to select a > different keyboard shortcuts preference. This would be a nice low > hanging fruit task. Has anyone started this?
Well, when we originally discussed this I thought that we had decided that we didn't really want a UI for it as to discourage it's use. Really, we want people to use Inkscape as Inkscape, not to encourage their use of a crutch. Same thing with the menus XML file.
That makes sense...still good to have them there...would we be against a patch? I think the more switchers the better...
I'm not against distributing the different key bindings with the Inkscape binary.
--Ted
Hope I'm not adding any fuel to the fire here, but I've been working with an alternate set of key bindings for the past month that I've built specifically for my illustration work. The bindings are based on a concept (not the layout) from the animation software Toon Boom Studio. The idea is that the left hand never leaves the keyboard and the right hand never leaves the stylus. From my own experience, it's quite a lot faster to draw this way. :) I just committed the bindings for this, so feel free to try it out if you're into doing drawing or illustration work with a tablet.
John
On 8/26/06, John Bintz <jcoswell@...1414...> wrote:
Hope I'm not adding any fuel to the fire here, but I've been working with an alternate set of key bindings for the past month that I've built specifically for my illustration work. The bindings are based on a concept (not the layout) from the animation software Toon Boom Studio. The idea is that the left hand never leaves the keyboard and the right hand never leaves the stylus. From my own experience, it's quite a lot faster to draw this way. :) I just committed the bindings for this, so feel free to try it out if you're into doing drawing or illustration work with a tablet.
That's excellent! Could you please add a note on this to http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes045?
As for UI, I'm not against creating UI for selecting among supplied profiles. I even think it's something we really need, by now. But an UI for creating new profiles is perhaps a bit premature, though if someone wants to create it I will not object.
What we really need is documentation about each of the profiles, and this documentation should be automated. Here's a relatively self-contained task that someone proficient in XML/XSLT can take on: develop a conversion stylesheet that transforms the profile xml (e.g. share/keys/right-handed-illustration.xml) into the keyboard documentation xml (example is doc/keys.xml), so that each profile has its own SVG and HTML documentation sheets created automativally. Certainly keys.xml has much more information than the profile in share/keys, and this means you will need to extend the source schema for the share/keys profiles to store all this additional information (comments, etc) there. Volunteers welcome!
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 12:59 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
As for UI, I'm not against creating UI for selecting among supplied profiles. I even think it's something we really need, by now. But an UI for creating new profiles is perhaps a bit premature, though if someone wants to create it I will not object.
What we really need is documentation about each of the profiles, and this documentation should be automated. Here's a relatively self-contained task that someone proficient in XML/XSLT can take on: develop a conversion stylesheet that transforms the profile xml (e.g. share/keys/right-handed-illustration.xml) into the keyboard documentation xml (example is doc/keys.xml), so that each profile has its own SVG and HTML documentation sheets created automativally. Certainly keys.xml has much more information than the profile in share/keys, and this means you will need to extend the source schema for the share/keys profiles to store all this additional information (comments, etc) there. Volunteers welcome!
I think the key issue is documentation, but I don't think the key map is the only place where the keys are documented. I believe all the tutorials make reference to the key map, and the manual. If there was some way to keep all of these matched I think that would be best.
--Ted
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, John Bintz wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 21:13 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 21:07 -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:34 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > It would be really great to have UI in our preferences to > > select a different keyboard shortcuts preference. This would > > be a nice low hanging fruit task. Has anyone started this?
That makes sense...still good to have them there...would we be against a patch? I think the more switchers the better...
Hope I'm not adding any fuel to the fire here, but I've been working with an alternate set of key bindings for the past month that I've built specifically for my illustration work.
The idea is that the left hand never leaves the keyboard and the right hand never leaves the stylus.
This could also have accessability benefits.
From my own experience, it's quite a lot faster to draw this way.
I'd be surprised if it wasn't used by far more than just tablet users.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://planet.openclipart.org
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