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

[Alexandre Neto]

By default, I would prefer that single "normal" keys (letters and number)
would be used only to swap between tools. Anything that implies changings
the project (adding, removing, duplicating,... layers\features\nodes...)
would use other keys (del, backspace, ...) or a combination with
"Ctrl\Shift\alt"+, with or without confirmation.

Why? Because it's quite easy for a user to think he is typing somewhere,
and by mistake he is altering something that he might not even notice.

There are sometimes that the confirmation is also informative ("Delete 5
features?"), if the confirmation is removed, this info should pass to
non-blocking message.

Alexandre Neto


On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would prefer to have only one shortcut - not a parallel "d" and
> "ctrl-d" with different behavious. This sounds confusing to me.
>
> As long as we don't have an undo option I would like to have the
> confirmation question always when removing one or more layers. It is not
> something that people do all the time, so it wouldn't be annoying. I
> also accidentally removed layers with right-click and there was no
> confirmation that stopped me. So I would prefer to have the confirmation
> when removing layers in all cases.
>
> Andreas
>
> Am 29.11.2013 07:56, schrieb Richard Duivenvoorde:
> > On 28-11-13 23:19, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> >> Given that adding/removing a complex layer can be expensive and there is
> >> no undo I would suggest to have a single key shortcut (D) with confirm
> >> and a modified one without (Ctrl-D).  You want to avoid the user doing
> >> something dangerous and in this case that is removing a layer layer
> >> without undo.
> >
> > Personally I do not like to add more then one key for the same action,
> > keep stuff simple.
> >
> > Although we could make confirmation an option, the number of options in
> > the options dialogs are also growing and growing. I've already a lot of
> > options to tweak for a new user to make it the best way for him/her.
> >
> > If we do a a first time dialog with a 'do not ask me anymore', that is
> > nice, BUT it means that we have to put a way to undo that somewhere in a
> > dialog/option too (while the logic code actually is easy: just an extra
> > if/flag).
> >
> > Let's keep the interface as simple/logical/friendly as possible
> > especially for non power users.
> >
> > Could we maybe create some poweruser options list (like gnome-settings
> > or :config in firefox). In which we put this kind of flags?
> > So no cluttering of the interface with 'do not ask' actions or more
> > options in the options dialogs. But only a list of configs which you
> > could use.
> > Which in practice would actually be a Qtable with filter for QSettings
> > of QGIS, in my case: ~/.config/QGIS/QGIS2.conf
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Richard Duivenvoorde
> >
> > ps Borys: we should not be afraid of some regression if it makes QGIS
> > better in general :-)
> >
> >
> >
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