[Bf-committers] Improving Blender's keymap: a proposal

Fabio Massaioli fabio.massaioli at virgilio.it
Fri Apr 6 23:51:22 CEST 2012


When I began to use Blender I chose to use LMB selection because I was 
accustomed to other applications. I had soon to switch back to RMB 
selection because left button functions overlapped with selection.
Now I think that RMB selection is the best choice and I'd like to use it 
also in other applications: I can't change selection accidentally and 
functions are distributed evenly among the two buttons.
Maybe you could solve LMB selection conflicts while keeping RMB selection 
and current mouse-button mapping fully functional.

Fabio Massaioli

On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Nathan Vegdahl wrote:

>> I agree with this but I was about to try doing just this when someone
>> on IRC warned me off of it saying it messes up to much in Blender. Was
>> this just BS, or is there some truth to it?
>
> That's based on the option in the user preferences.  It may be true,
> I'm not sure.  In our case, though, we're creating an entire new input
> map, so there's no reason it needs to be an issue.
>
> --Nathan
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Nathan Vegdahl <cessen at cessen.com> wrote:
>>>> Those things said - I've been "trying" LMB-select for a couple of years.  I
>>>> have to say, I much prefer it, as LMB for select is ubiquitous in virtually
>>>> all other pieces of software I use.
>>>>
>>>> Dare I suggest you try this out as well Nathan?
>>>
>>> Yup!  I'm kind of assuming that we'll switch to LMB-select as default.
>>>  Unless there are some strong arguments against, it seems like it's
>>> high time to join the rest of the world on this.  And I say this as
>>> someone that is extremely used to RMB-select in Blender.
>>>
>>> --Nathan
>>
>> I agree with this but I was about to try doing just this when someone
>> on IRC warned me off of it saying it messes up to much in Blender. Was
>> this just BS, or is there some truth to it?
>>
>>
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