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

[Nathan Vegdahl]

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

+1 (and 2 and 3 ;-) )

--Nathan V

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Wahooney<wahooney at wahooney.net> wrote:
> 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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