[Bf-taskforce25] Keyboard Shortcuts Proposal

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

I hate to sound so conservative and all, so I wont complain about
mouse-select switch as default and stuff :) , just will try to give my
opinion in some things.

> * Removed most F-key commands. Many keyboards and computers use these for special input like volume, brightness etc.

I don't agree with this, I've been using many different keyboards and
laptops during the past years for Blender and never got the F-keys
annoying me, only one time on a Mac, which I had to turn on a special
option for it, but being that most of the community uses Windows, and
the next one in popularity is GNU/Linux running usually Gnome or KDE,
then I don't see a problem with keeping them, all laptops have a
"function" key to enable certain options on their F-keys, please keep
them, it speeds up workflow a lot.

>
There are some other things but I would extend it too much, for
example I'm missing the Select Linked options (Shift+G) on the 2.5
layout, but I guess that would be somewhere else.

The one I will really miss is Shift + Space for fullscreen, since
Ctrl+Up/Down is just too slow (for some reason I find *too* slow to
use my right hand for shortcuts, traveling from the keyboard to the
mouse back and forth is too much).

Just my 2 cents, since we'll have custom keymaps i don't bother too
much in going through every little change, but there are a few that I
find really fast for workflow and I wouldn't like new users to miss
them.


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



On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:48, William Reynish<william at reynish.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After recent discussions about changing a few keyboard keys around, we
> agreed to wait and make a more thorough proposal, analyzing the
> keyboard layout as a whole instead of changing this individually.
>
> Here's such a proposal:
>
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/UIKeyboardLayouts
>
> I realize this is a sensitive topic, and there are of course multiple
> ways you could improve the layout, but it's become clear to me that
> some cleanup is needed.
>
> I've assumed here that we'll get a radial menu system similar to what
> Matt Ebb proposed a few years ago, because this has an impact on how
> we think about keys with multiple options.
>
> Of course I'd be happy to hear comments or suggestions.
>
> Cheers
>
> -William
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