On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Rob Antonishen <rob.antonishen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The world would be better if each application domain had a consistent >> set of core accelerators. File->New, File->Save, Cut/Copy/Paste, etc. >> are good for most all applications. For a graphics program, common >> tools like Pencil, Eraser, Move, Crop, etc. should have consistent >> accelerators. Accelerators can diverge where the application domain >> differs of course (e.g. raster versus vector editors) and where >> applications specialize (tablet support versus not), but within each >> sub-domain consistent cross-application accelerators would be better. > > But they don't. Maintaining legacy shortcuts prevents moving forward > with new features. What don't what? I'm not at all suggesting immutable accelerators - in the next paragraph I clearly state: "even if it means that accelerators occasionally change between versions." As one example (likely not the best one, I'm sure), GIMP uses <Ctrl>+, for FG Color Fill and <Ctrl>+. for BG Color Fill. I assume these keys are near each other on all keyboards... PhotoShop uses <Alt>+<Backspace> for FG Fill and <Ctrl>+<Backspace> for BG Fill. <Shift>+<Backspace> pulls up the Fill Dialog. These seem like reasonable accelerators that don't conflict with GIMP's. I used this for reference: http://morris-photographics.com/photoshop/shortcuts/index.html Paint Shop Pro doesn't seem to have a "fill" accelerator, but it looks like Paint.NET uses <Backspace>: http://www.keyxl.com/aaad5b6/325/Paint-Dot-Net-keyboard-shortcuts.htm Confusingly, Ps uses unmodified <Backspace> as a synonym for <Delete>. But based on my sample size of 3, one could say that there may be a convergence towards <Backspace> as having something to do with fills. This is hardly overwhelming evidence of anything, but if we as a graphics-software producing community can all agree that <Backspace> = "Fills", that will only help the users of our collective software. This suggestion isn't so much about cloning "competitive" software but of recognizing that graphics professionals may use many different (but similar) tools and the more similarity there is among them the better off they will be in producing their works. Chris _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
