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

[Pablo Vazquez - www.venomgfx.com.ar]

So is the current spacebar menu (to add new primitives in edit mode for
example) going to be on Shift+A only?

I don't really mind about this because we'll have custom keymaps, but I
would prefer Ctrl+Tab like it is now, but without the menu, just looping
through the selection modes (there are only 3 so..) and maybe as feedback to
know which mode are we changing to, the cursor could draw the icon of the
current mode (vert/edge/face) next to it for a second and fade away.

I know the Ctrl+Tab menu could get annoying, I use it all the time though,
and I think looping could be a good solution if we give easy-to-see feedback
in which selection mode we are switching to.

* Pablo Vazquez
Freelance 3D Artist
info at venomgfx.com.ar
www.venomgfx.com.ar


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:54, joe <joeedh at gmail.com> 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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