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[Thomas Pointhuber <thomas.pointhuber@xxxxxx>]

so I should change it to CW and CCW? I assume the tooltip text of the
panel should also be change accordingly.

Regards, Thomas


Am 2018-05-03 um 19:44 schrieb Wayne Stambaugh:
> On 5/3/2018 1:28 PM, jp charras wrote:
>> Le 03/05/2018 à 18:44, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>>> I did notice one thing that is a bit odd in the first patch.  The rotate
>>> menu entries use -> and <- to signify clockwise and counter-clockwise
>>> directions.  I'm not sure this is clear to the user.  If we need to
>>> avoid the verbosity of CW and CCW then maybe we should use + and - instead.
>>>
>> I am never thrilled by using + and - instead of CW and CCW.
>>
>> Just because I do not know what is the meaning of + (or -)
>>
>> If + is the positive rotation using mathematical positive angle rotation definition, it is
>> equivalent to CCW.
>> But I am not sure this is the way it is understood by all users and I find this notation ambiguous.
>>
> Me neither.  I prefer CW and CCW.  + and - were suggestions as an
> improvement over -> and <-.  It appears that the menu icons actually
> show the correct axis rotation.
>
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