[Bf-funboard] Consistency and education

[Brecht Van Lommel]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:05 PM, menuetm <menuetm at stud.hfwu.de> wrote:
> The question :
> Would it be possible to have consistent inputs integrated in 2.69 (or
> 2.69c like consistency)? Our first concern is the select method. We
> don't really care if it's left or right click as we can change the
> default on our Network installation image, but we do care it's
> consistent (select, border-select, circle select, free-form-select,
> outliner, node-editor, etc...).
>
> This is one of the biggest barrier we found in our feedback. We
> believe, as it's only related to key-bindings, that it may be included
> pretty easily as an option ("consistent select" ?) like left-click.
> We agree with most of the consistency issues Jonathan pointed out in
> the podcast and would also be happy to see them resolved if possible in
> a 2.69 release, as we most certainly won't upgrade to the 2.7x series
> before it reaches the same degree of reliability the 2.69 version
> reached.

2.69 will be released very soon and we're in phase where it only gets
critical bug fixes, so selection will not change there anymore. The
exact release planning is not decided yet, but 2.70 compared to 2.69
will not be like 2.50 compared to 2.49, we do not intend to build up
everything from scratch this time. It's not entirely clear yet what
will happen, but if it was up to me, 2.70 would be about as stable as
any version in the 2.6x series.

Regarding left/right mouse select, I would like to see a good proposal
and decision on that soon, with attention to consistency. Probably
most things that you consider to not be consistent could be solved if
we improve our LMB select configuration. Consistency with RMB could be
improved a bit, but probably it will always be 'inconsistent' from the
point of view explained in the videos/podcasts, while having
advantages that LMB will never have (http://vimeo.com/76335056). No
good way around that as far as I can tell.

I agree that we should have a better and more consistent LMB key
configuration included and I expect that to happen.

Brecht.