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[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Hoho, you really overshoot.
Everything works as usual. All the other hotkeys don't use ordered 
modifiers.

Only if you explicitely add in a keymap that order is relevant (SHIFT2, 
ALT2 etc), it will be evaluated *only* in that specific keymap entry. 
It's not a feature for default maps, it's an option for limited cases 
for power users who need more flexiblity.

Further I completely stand behind the usefulness of testing such 
options. Same will go for any-key modiers (hold p, press something), 
multi-key input (press H, E , L, P) and more of such concepts. :)

I've spent a lot of time designing a very well balanced and flexible 
event system in Blender. We've been evaluating the system from many 
different angles, especially for being fit for future developement 
including better tablet support, multi-touch input, dual-mouse 
configurations, etc. We should make sufficient room for experiments and 
innovations in Blender, that's the real power of this project, right?

A bit more of open minded discussions would help too here. It's not fun 
to get such a treatment for an honestly meant contribution.

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute BV  Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam The Netherlands

On 1 Feb, 2009, at 0:35, Matt Ebb wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
>
>> For testing fun I've put these ones as first keys using the
>> modifier order feature. So it's now:
>>
>> SHIFT+G :     similar vertex
>> CTRL+SHIFT+G: similar edge
>> SHIFT+CTRL+G: similar face
>>
>> Not very useful here; but I think this can work well to map
>> a double amount of options under mouseclicks. Power user
>> config stuff!
>
> Eek, this is a really, really, really bad idea. It's going to confuse
> the hell out of so many people, including myself - nobody expects the
> order of modifier keys to make a difference, indeed some people just
> push them both at the same time.
>
> There are many better solutions to the problem of accessing tools
> quickly, doing this sort of thing will quickly turn into a usability
> nightmare and it's definitely not where we should be heading.
>
> Matt
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