Nudging keys confusing #117

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opened 2025-09-20 07:39:00 +00:00 by glen · 0 comments

glen commented

2025-09-20 07:39:00 +00:00

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It is confusing that when an entity is selected in the graphic view, shift-W and shift-S do different things than W and S, whereas shift-D and shift-A do the same things as D and A.

There is not a similar issue (at the moment) with the arrow keys, since they implement four operations: yaw, pitch, roll, and zoom.

I can't offhand think of any additional nudging operation to put on shift-D and shift-A at the moment, so they should probably just be no-ops. (Once there are rotationally asymmetric entities like a line segment, once could conceivably want rotational nudges, but if so, there are three independent axes of rotation, so two keystrokes would not be enough to trigger these.)

It is confusing that when an entity is selected in the graphic view, shift-W and shift-S do different things than W and S, whereas shift-D and shift-A do the same things as D and A. There is not a similar issue (at the moment) with the arrow keys, since they implement four operations: yaw, pitch, roll, and zoom. I can't offhand think of any additional nudging operation to put on shift-D and shift-A at the moment, so they should probably just be no-ops. (Once there are rotationally asymmetric entities like a line segment, once could conceivably want rotational nudges, but if so, there are three independent axes of rotation, so two keystrokes would not be enough to trigger these.)