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

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

I won't complain on this really. But, at this moment, 
testing/validating period, I'd suggest to try to use existing hotkeys 
if possible. Much easier to get things back work.
Making good new default keymaps then can be done in a short time 
(keymap editor will be there before siggraph, most likely). Changing 
individual things every day will be only confusing...

And I guess you realize that QWE is logical for many, but not for all 
keyboards? :)

-Ton-

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On 18 Jun, 2009, at 12:54, 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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