shift-F4 and Append ideas Re: [Bf-funboard] good append

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I said:
>I am more concerned about things that Blender does NOT have.

Luke wrote:
>Using that approach, new features would just keep on being tacked onto
>Blender without polishing up what is already there.

There's a difference between 'more concerned' and 'only concerned'

>If the append function was made more obvious, while making things as
>productive, then people could also turn to the new docs if they can't work
>it out. I don't think blender's help system (the tooltips) help people
>learn the append features I was talking about.

That's right, but that's the fault of the help system and not the feature in
question.


>In blender my left hand is mostly over the home row (asdf) so it is quite
>easy for me to press left-shift and use my right hand to click the
>left-mouse button

The question is not if you need practise to do something, but how much
strain it produces for the hand. 'Repetative strain injury, RSI'  is one of
the most serious Computer 'diseases'

>Shift-left-click is also totally consistent with how multiple layers are
>selected... if you right-click there then you get a menu popping up...

  Layers are buttons. As far as I know, every button in Blender is pressed
with a leftclick, while selections inside every kind of window are
made by RMB. Totally consistant.

  And I still don't care about standards (OS like Windows...). Compare how
Windows, Mac selects and copies text with the way Linux does. The Linux way
is much faster. But it's not a well known standard. Because Gates is a
brilliant marketing expert, and nothing more. There's a bunch of that inside
Blender. Do what everybody does and you get what everybody gets.
Blender can be extraordinary (and popular later) or ordinary and popular
now.
So I vote for efficiency and consistency over standard OS compatibility.

  The way the textbox reacts to a leftclick is a bit strange though. But I
wouldn't be surprised if there's a logical explanation. Hidden Qualities are
still qualities. But on the other hand, this could get improved. But LMB for
selection is the real inconsistancy as far as I know Blender.

Peter Haehnlein