Revise keybindings - Githubissues

vincent23 commented 9 years ago

We should introduce some sort of "guideline" or "policy" for keybindings and adapt the existing ones.

This could look like:

just pressing a single letter performs some simple and often needed action, which also doesn't have permanent effects
Ctrl modifier is for more serious actions, so it sort of acts as a "barrier"
Shift is for inverting or performing some equivalent action in another way (e.g. if "Flip horizontally" would be Ctrl + F, then "Flip vertically" would be Ctrl + Shift + F)
Alt is for more slight modifications to existing actions (e.g. turning on "Snap to grid" when moving something)

vincent23 commented 9 years ago

TODO: Also think about mouse clicks, like when to use left/middle/right click…

phistep commented 9 years ago

I think we should postpone this and revise it after Selections™ have arrived.

But I'm totally in for some HUI-Guidelines!

ro0mquy / rtificial