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[Shaul Kedem]

just to give you an example of where such a thing is very useful (and
the only place I saw it, actually): when you switch from left-to-right
writing to right-to-left in an editor it decides the direction by the
side of ctrl+shift the user pressed. still need to think about press
order though (ton, the world may not be ready for this one yet :-) )

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> 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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