[Qgis-developer] Shortcut changes in QGIS; call for opinions

[G. Allegri]

We could also ask for confirmation the first time and then let the user
flag a "Stop asking for confirmation", or something like that...

giovanni


2013/11/28 A Huarte <ahuarte47 at yahoo.es>

> Hi Andreas, thanks for your comments.
>
> I think that the edition (delete features) is much more agile without many
> and repetitive messages boxex. In principle UNDO tool works fine.
>
> There is a pull request with these changes:
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/1010
>
> Best regards
>
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *De:* Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>
> *Para:* qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> *Enviado:* Jueves 28 de noviembre de 2013 16:33
> *Asunto:* Re: [Qgis-developer] Shortcut changes in QGIS; call for opinions
>
> Hi,
>
> I think the confirmation messages are mainly from a time where there was
> no undo possibility available. Assuming that the undo works properly I
> am ok that the confirmation message is suppressed.
>
> Alternatively we could ask for confirmation if there is more than one
> feature deleted.
>
> Regarding backspace and delete: ArcMap has an easy situation as it only
> supports Windows where there is always a del-key. We have to support
> multiple platforms. Some keyboards (e.g. Macintosh) do not provide a del
> key - on those keyboards the del-key has to be emulated with
> fn-backspace which is not very efficient and can't be triggered with one
> hand.
>
> +1 for the additional confirmation when removing one or more layers -
> because there is no undo for that! If there were an undo I would not mind.
>
> Thank you for bringing up this issues - wonder what the other users
> think - esp. the OSX users.
>
> Andreas
>
> Am 28.11.2013 16:11, schrieb A Huarte:
> > Hi, I would know objections in order to change some shortcut keys in
> QGIS desktop.
> >
> > + Delete selected features in map canvas -> DEL key without ask for
> confirmation.
> >    Now QGIS ask for confirmation first.
> >    Other GIS app desktops, Arcmap, gvSIG.... use DEL key.
> >
> > + Delete selected features in attribute table -> DEL key without ask for
> confirmation.
> >    Now QGIS uses Ctrl+D shortcut and ask for confirmation first.
> >    Other GIS app desktops, Arcmap, gvSIG.... use DEL key.
> >
> > + Remove selected node of a feature -> 'backspace' key without ask for
> confirmation.
> >    Now QGIS uses DEL key, and similarly 'backspace' already deletes a
> node when drawing a feature.
> >
> > + Remove layer from legend -> Ctrl+D with ask for confirmation.
> >    Now QGIS does not ask for confirmation.
> >
> > Our purpose is to standardize these keys and avoid unnecessary and
> continuous confirmation messages in an edit session (You can easily undo
> the removal using the UNDO option menu or Ctrl+Z shortcut).
> >
> >
> > You can see the current discussion in:
> >
> > http://hub.qgis.org/issues/9094
> >
> >
> > Thank you very much!
> > Regards
> >
> >
> >
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