[Qgis-developer] Key accelerators vs. key shortcuts.

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On 4/9/06, Maciek Sieczka <werchowyna at epf.pl> wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 22:13:31 +0100
> "Tim Sutton" <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Lubos
> >
> > These are good observations. I would like the shortcuts to be
> > predictable and think its a good idea to look at other applications /
> > frameworks to see what standard shortcuts and accellerator keys are
> > used.
> >
> > Most of your suggestions I agree with, only zoom in zoom out I dont. I
> > would like to reassign zoom in to '+' and zoom out to '-'.
>
> This won't be handy IMHO. Zoom in/out and Pan shortcuts are really
> usefull only during digitizing. So putting them as far right as '+' and
> '-' don't make much sense. Their location should be somewhere at the
> very down left of the keyboard - say 'z', 'x'. A shorcut for Pan
> could be put there too, eg. 'a'. So the right hand would now be free
> to ride the mouse at a decent pace. But what would the left wingers
> feel about it?
>

Space is already set to do 'mouse locking pan', and arrow keys are set
to pan one screenwidth in a direction. Arrow keys and + and - are all
right together if you use numeric keypad so it seems no hand movement
is required to access these commonly used keys...

> Or, even better, if shortcut key settings would be customizable. But
> this might be a bit too much as for now ;).
>

Yes one day that will be nice!

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