On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Tom Rathborne wrote: > I often alternate between drawing with the pencil and selecting & > filling with Ctrl-. The current arrangement actually makes the most > sense to me. > > Tom I echo this sentiment. The current arrangement was very intuitive to me, even when I first saw it. More importantly, however, this is essentially an arbitrary decision: some people will find it more or less confusing either way, and in such cases it usually makes sense to stick with historical precedent. Perhaps we could compromise: control-period for fill-with-background-color, control-comma for fill-with-foreground-color? With all the bugfixing and "shrink-wrapping" that needs to go on for 1.2, it seems a HUGE waste of time to be worrying about something like this. "If it ain't broke..." --- Even if you can deceive people about a product through misleading statements, sooner or later the product will speak for itself. - Hajime Karatsu