[Bf-funboard] Very humble suggestion

Stephen Swaney bf-funboard@blender.org
Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:16:10 -0600


William Reynish wrote:
> 
> I have a very humble suggestion to make about the
> toolbox menu. Currently it displays the g key action
> as "Grabber" wich is confusing I think. It sounds like
> you are adding a little grabber object or something.

If you were adding something, it would be under the 'Add'
menu.
 
> I propose we call it "Grab/Move" or "Move/Grab". Move
> because that is what it actually doeas, and Grab so
> that we can remember the hotkey G.

In English, adding the suffix 'er' to a verb gives the
meaning of someone or something who does the verb.

Run + er = runner - someone who runs.
Grab + er = grabber - something that grabs

 
> This will make learning Blender very very slightly
> easier.

Hmmm.  If people are falling down over this, they
will skin their knees badly when it comes to
tricky stuff like vertices, edges and faces.

-- 
Stephen Swaney			
sswaney@swbell.net