[Bf-committers] Regarding the current usage of proportional edit

[Hadrien Brissaud]

Thanks Sean, David, Campbell. Consider my suggestion void if pie menus are
effectively going to replace traditional context menus. However, let me add
that hitting one single key (o) for toggling proportional edit seems more
straightforward than bringing up a pie menu through the same hotkey and
travel to the desired slice before clicking it. If we're going to have a
four-slice pie for proportional edit, I suggest we keep a default hotkey to
just toggle it on and off.

Hadrien


On 6 July 2013 01:01, Sean Olson <seanolson at gmail.com> wrote:

> The upcoming pie menu's should make the 3 way switch pretty easy.  The
> piemenus addon in contrib already has functionality for proportional
> editing on the 'o' key.
>
> The best place for suggestions like this is probably the bf-funboard
> ("Functionality Board") mailing list.
>
> -Sean
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Hadrien Brissaud <hadriscus at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > first thing : is it the right mailing list for tiny suggestions like this
> > one ? Please read on and tell me so I don't get it wrong. It is a
> usability
> > idea.
> >
> > I often use proportional edit when modeling, however I sometimes use
> > "connected" and sometimes not, and I don't systematically remember which.
> > In the spur of the moment, I often happen to hit "o" or "alt+o" and find
> > myself toggling the other proportional edit mode, when I just want to
> turn
> > it off !
> >
> > With the new "projected" mode this rather irritating issue embiggens, as
> > one would have to stumble between three modes and their corresponding
> > hotkeys before getting what they want. Hence this suggestion.
> >
> > I suggest to make proportional edit a boolean, like snapping, and keep an
> > additional menu from which you could select the proportional edit type
> > (normal, connected, projected). "o" would toggle proportional edit on and
> > off, and alt+o or shift+o would switch between modes.
> >
> > Thank you for your great work,
> >
> > Hadrien
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