[Bf-taskforce25] Keyboard Shortcuts Proposal

[JimmyVolatile]

+1: *Shift+Space *is way faster for toggling fullscreen.
As far as it is possible, I suggest that the most frequently used shortcuts
remain at the left half of the key-board to remain within reach of one hand.
In theory, this provides 20 letter and number keys + 5 additional keys.
(Tab, Caps Lock, Space, > and |) times 3 modifier keys = 75 actions/commands
available. If double modifiers (Ctrl+Alt, Ctrl+Shift, Alt+Shift) are counted
too, the number of available keyboard shortcuts increase to 150. However,
some of the shortcuts will hardly be reachable when using double modifiers
so a realistic number could be something like 140 available shortcuts.
(Exactly what those most frequently used shortcuts are, may of course be
another matter of debate.)
With regs,
Jimmy Volatile

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Pablo Vazquez - www.venomgfx.com.ar <
venomgfx at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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