[Bf-committers] Why has "CTRL y" been removed from blender ?

[Martin Poirier]

The fact of the matter is, we can't have default hotkeys that will please everyone.

We started providing alternative keymaps for users of other software (maya only in 2.57, but others are probably in preparation).

If enough people using a different keyboard layouts want to get together and create a layout for azerty (or dvorak or quertz or whatever) and there is enough support for it, we could also include it.

Martin

--- On Sat, 4/16/11, Damir Prebeg <blend.factory at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Damir Prebeg <blend.factory at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Why has "CTRL y" been removed from blender ?
> To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at blender.org>
> Received: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 6:45 PM
> This is again question of locale
> problems in blender and again you are
> looking on this only from one point of view - as users of
> standard US
> keyboard layout. I use keyboard that has Z in place of Y
> and Y in
> place of Z. While hitting Ctrl+Z is easy, hitting
> Ctrl+Shift+Z i quite
> tedious to reach with one hand. And again I think that
> blender uses
> nonstandard shortcut because In most applications that I
> use, CTRL+Y
> is redo or repeat.
> 
> On 16 April 2011 16:32, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Campbell Barton
> <ideasman42 at gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Agree that its a bad precedent to support multiple
> common key
> >> assignments to the same operator just to make
> people who are used to
> >> each feel comfortable.
> >>
> >> It would be like adding:
> >> * Ctrl+Insert copy
> >> * Shift-Delete cut
> >> * Shift-Insert paste
> >> Alongside Ctrl+C/X/V.
> >>
> >> Isn't the reason we have an editable keymap so we
> can have what we
> >> consider `good` defaults and people who want to
> change them can do so?
> >
> >
> > Yes, I think so but as a person that teaches people
> all the time, it is WAY
> > better to have one standard set that is the default
> and expected by all
> > users. Experts are welcome to modify at will.
> >
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