[Bf-committers] Keyboard Shortcuts

[Rick Yorgason]

So Alpha 1 is out, and things are getting pretty exciting.  I've 
noticed, though, that Reynish's suggested default input bindings 
<http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.5/Source/UI/Keyboard_Layouts> 
haven't been implemented yet.  They seem like great suggestions, so I 
was just curious, is that still in the cards?

I'd also like to make a suggestion.  Blender 2.5 has that wonderful new 
quad-view which locks the top, front, and right axes.  This is great, 
because in 2.49 I spent half my time accidentally rotating my views and 
resetting them.

However, this also means that, most of the time, the middle-mouse button 
doesn't do anything without a keyboard modifier.  It would be more 
efficient if the unmodified middle mouse button was used to pan. 
There's also a lot of precedence for this behaviour, such as in Gimp and 
Inkscape, which would make it easier to adapt when using multiple programs.

Luckily I can configure Blender to act this way now, which is great, but 
I do think Reynish's ambition to improve the default bindings is a noble 
one.

Cheers,

-Rick-