[Bf-taskforce25] Hotkeys for mesh selection mode switching.

[Wahooney]

Why not use plain 1, 2, 3 for the selection mode?

I know that it's being used for layer switching, but what is the 
advantage of switching layers while in edit mode? Personally it's always 
been a hindrance to me, sometimes I didn't hit al-tab properly and then 
my mesh disappears... Not handy.

Correct me if I'm wrong with the above.

Another possibility is perhaps e, f, v on a QWERTY keyboard they make a 
nice arc around your home keys (F & J).

But both e, f, v and q, w, e break their usefulness on alternate 
keyboard layouts (Dvorak, AZERTY, etc).

So my not humble at all opinion is that 1, 2, 3 are probably the most 
sane choice.

Keith

joe wrote:
> After some discussion with Geoffry and Matt on IRC, it became clear
> that for a selection mode-aware system to really work, we need really
> fast hotkeys to switch between vert/edge/face selection mode.  The
> current hotkey is both extremely awkward, *and* produces a menu, which
> makes it very annoying to use (to the point I myself have never really
> used it).
>
> We came up with the idea of using q w e for switching modes.  Wkey
> would be moved to spacebar, and ekey would be moved to tkey (for
> exTrude).  This would help ease the pain as more and more tools are
> likely to become selection mode-aware (and thus users will have to
> switch modes to accomplish specific tasks).
>
> Changing hotkeys is normally somewhat dangerous, but frankly I believe
> it to be necessary, and I certainly intend to do more reorganization
> then this.  The (many) hotkey popups we have are in bad need of
> organization, and I suspect that many functions may move to different
> hotkeys by the time we're done.
>
> Joe
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