[Bf-funboard] New Keymap: selection

[Jorge Rodriguez]

It may be that seeing the suggestion that loop/ring select go on right
click elicited a strong reaction from me since I'm a die hard fan of it
going on double click. (It should, by the way :P)

Between shift, ctrl, alt, and double click, you have a lot of combinations.
Some of them are crazy hand cramping but if you add up the permutations you
get 16 different command inputs. That's not enough to exhaustively put any
possible command on a combination, but it should be enough to cover a
majority of use cases. That's okay though. You don't need to be exhaustive
and cover every single use case. Many of them can be found by combining
simpler ones. If we go by the 7 plus or minus
2<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Plus_or_Minus_Two>rule,
people are unlikely to learn more than 9 combinations anyway. You
could extend this with some consistency and structural logic (ie, knowing
that holding shift always extends or alt always removes reduces the memory
stress on the user and allows them to remember shortcuts faster) but I
think you're unlikely to pass 16.

I think your goal should be to cover the majority-use cases in the simple
button combinations, and if the user wants more commands then they can open
the config panel and set them up for themselves.


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Jorge "Vino" Rodriguez
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