[Bf-funboard] Blender new keymap progress

[Paweł Łyczkowski]

Great work! Here is my feedback. When I omit things it means they are 
good IMO.

Viewport draw mode - I always switch from textured to wire and back to 
textured, or from solid to wire and back to solid, so the best for me 
would be if the wire mode would be a toggle.

Mode switch - Nice! Would be even if there was an option of holding down 
space bar - if the user held down space bar, releasing the space bar 
would choose the mode currently selected. This could be implemented in 
other menus as well I suppose.

Selection - If LMB dragging in empty space deselects all, I would also 
recommend that LMB clicking in empty space would also deselect all.
Adding/removing loop selection does not work. (Build 52333).

Vertex/edge/face menu - I especially like that one.

Translate/rotate/scale/create edge/face - hard to press c while holding 
fingers on s d f, I would probably change it to a s d, and make 
edge/face on f. What about a? -> With LMB click on empty space, and 
ctrl-a to select everything, a for select/deselect all would be unnecessary.

"combines face/edge creation with the vertex connect tool" - That would 
be awesome.

Merge menu - I use this one a lot, and alt-m is unusable. I currently 
have it on alt-e, but anything around wsad is better than m.

Regards
Paweł Łyczkowski
plyczkowski.com

W dniu 18-11-2012 21:55, Nathan Vegdahl pisze:
> Hey guys,
> I've started work on the new blender keymap again (was really busy for a while).
>
> I recently made this commit (the log includes a listing of the hoykeys):
> http://projects.blender.org/scm/viewvc.php?view=rev&root=bf-extensions&revision=3980
>
> In short, mesh edit mode is now ready for testing by modelers, and I
> encourage anyone experienced in modeling to give it a try and then
> give some (constructive!) feedback.  In particular, if there are tools
> that you use frequently that you think should be assigned to a primary
> hotkey, or if (after giving yourself a chance to get used to things)
> some of the choices feel awkward.  You will need a recent svn build of
> Blender to test, of course, as I just now committed this.
>
> There are still some things that I would like to change, but which
> will require diving into Blender's source code.  I'll get to them
> eventually.  Specifically:
> - I would like to make an operator that combines face/edge creation
> with the vertex connect tool.  i.e. if 2 or more verts are selected,
> and they're all part of the same face, use connect--otherwise use
> face/edge creation.  Then we won't need separate hotkeys for the two
> tools, and I think it will also help prevent certain common user
> errors resulting in strange meshes.
> - Currently edge-loop and edge-ring select don't have add or remove
> selection modes, only replace and extend.  I'll need to add those to
> make them consistent with the other selection tools.
>
> (And remember that space-bar is the mode-switch key now, not tab.)
>
> --Nathan
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