[Bf-funboard] UI rules

[William Reynish]

I'm sorry, you misunderstood me. I know Blender very
well. In pretty much every program on the planet you
use ctrl-o to open, not to reopen last. Only Blender
doesn't use ctrl-o for opening. I think that ctrl-o
should be remapped for th Open command. We could still
have a hotkey for Reopen Last. Tha could be one of the
F keys (Maby we could just switch the Open and Reopen
Last commands hotkeys).

The reason I belive this would be better is because we
have to be very friendly to new users. It is very
arrogant to not care about the new users of Blender. I
am an experienced user, but I would like to see
Blender become the most popular 3D program in the
world. This is possible because it is free and has
some amazing features. To conquor the 3D market we
only need to make it easier to learn. Even if you hate
Microsoft, Apple and all other software companies, it
would still be good to use the standards in hotkey
assignment for basic actions such as save, load, copy,
paste, cut (I know we have the standards for copying,
pasting and cutting text, but it should copy to the OS
clipboard too. Currently that is done with another key
combination) and so on. 

F1 should be Reopen Last

Ctrl-O should be Open  





 --- Stephen Swaney <sswaney@swbell.net> wrote: 
> > 
> > These are some of the things I vote for:
> > 
> > HOTKEYS
> 
> I agree.  Blender should definitely have hotkeys!
> > We already have ctrl-s for saving and
> > loads of other commands, but why is ctrl-o Reopen
> Last
> > and not simply Open? It would make much more sence
> to
> > use the standard behavior of opening with ctrl-o. 
> 
> Nope.  This is wrong.  Blender uses the filesystem
> for its undo stack, rather than memory.  That's what
> the business about versions in the Preferences
> window
> is for.  Saving a .blend file is fast because it's
> basically a memory dump.  The idea is that you
> checkpoint
> your work before doing something drastic.  If you
> don't
> like the results CTL-O to reload.  I'm not going to
> mention
> autosave.
> 
> There is already a key, F1, for open.  Sometimes I
> get
> the impression that these suggestions are coming
> from
> people who are not familiar with blender.
> 
> -- 
> Stephen Swaney			
> sswaney@swbell.net
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