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Bug 439854 - Single-handled tool keys
Single-handled tool keys
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: dia
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.96.1
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: 0.97
Assigned To: Dia maintainers
Dia maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-05-20 05:45 UTC by John Pye
Modified: 2009-01-31 14:49 UTC
See Also:
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Description John Pye 2007-05-20 05:45:37 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
It would be great if the keyboard shortcuts for switching tools could be one-handed keystrokes.

The current, such as ctrl-shift-L are really not usable given that you'll normally have the mouse in the other hand.

I would like to suggest the simple keys like those of Photoshop, Gimp, which just used simple and rememberable letters of the alphabet in most cases. The Inkscape use of function keys is not great, as that requires whole-arm movement, and the hand is usally closer to the ctrl-Z key in my case :-)


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Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Lars Clausen 2007-05-20 17:47:15 UTC 
This will have to wait until text editing is a separate mode, or it will interfere with typing.  Don't have time to find the appropriate depends-on right now.
Comment 2 Hans Breuer 2009-01-31 14:49:31 UTC 
2009-01-31  Hans Breuer  <hans@breuer.org>

	* app/display.[ch] app/diagram.[ch] app/menus.[ch] : get rid of nearly
	unmaintainable UpdatableMenuItems and a lot of ui-variant-specific code
	by dynamic action lookup when updating sensitivity. This not only fixes
	bug #527565 but also bug #322190 and allows ...
	* app/interface.c : make Tool accelerator single key strokes - e.g. no
	more <alt><shift>L to draw a line but just "L" - another benefit of the
	dedicated test edit mode ;) - bug #439854.