[Bf-taskforce25] Keyboard Shortcuts Proposal

[Gustav Göransson]

Should we really take tablet and touchpad users etc. into
consideration? We shouldn’t end up with a bad compromise just because
minority of the users is using a different input device.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 15:51, Alberto Torres<kungfoobar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/22 William Reynish <william at reynish.com>:
>>
>> It's also good to think about tablets and laptops where right-clicking
>> is not always that easy and direct.
>>
>
> On laptops, without a proper mouse, I don't see how blender would be
> usable even with LMB selection.
>
> On tablets, I would add a special tablet mode: LMB for selection,
> RMB+LMB drag to rotate (I've found it's very difficult to use RMB/MMB
> as buttons and would be easier to use them as modifiers of LMB) and
> some way of making gestures... On tablet PCs, maybe you don't have
> access to the keyboard, or more probably have access to some special
> keys (I've used a tablet with ONE such key), which can be mapped as
> shift, ctrl. Maybe also enabling the "drag immediately" option but I
> would enable that if I don't have easy access to undo.
>
>> I've mostly heard to opposite argument. The more you have to use you
>> *fingers* for clicking, the more likely you are to get a tennis elbow.
>> The more you alternate between left and right clicking, you train your
>> fingers to do the clicking work and not the hand. This is one of the
>> reasons Macs used to ship with single-button mice - to alleviate
>> ergonomic issues.
>>
>> I'll investigate this some more though. Do you have any links to
>> support this concern?
>>
>
> I've found that clicking with the middle and ring fingers I need less
> effort or it's harder to get tired. Aside from RMB select, we have LMB
> confirm. If we select with LMB, we also confirm with LMB, so RMB would
> be much less used and therefore we put much more strain to the index
> finger. Also, it's easier to make mistakes selecting and confirming
> with the same button.
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