On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 13:59 -0500, Christopher Curtis wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Yes, perhaps it might be nice if the key to get the eraser was the same > > in inkscape and gimp and blender and gedit and krita and mypaint, but it > > could no longer be "E" because that inserts text in gedit, so we'd end > > up using conrtol-shift-e or something. But that's already Export in gimp > > now, and what if it does something in Blender? > > I don't know if you're intentionally setting up a stawman here, but > inkscape is a vector editor, blender is a 3D modeler, and gedit is a > text editor. These applications aren't in the same domain as GIMP and > MyPaint. Actually no, I'm being entirely serious - they are often used together, just as Photoshop and Illustrator are used together. (and gedit, like GIMP and Inkscape, is a GNOME program, hosted on www.gnome.org) > So all I'm suggesting is that instead of simply producing PhotoShop > keybindings (which is a fine idea, IMO) that an interested person > actually look at the broader picture to see if there is any > accelerator convergence among peer applications and propose bringing > GIMP into alignment where it makes sense to do so. I'm actually Ok with this. But we have to agree what we mean by "peer applications" - I'd say gimp and inkscape are, for example, and not gimp and photoshop. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
