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Re: HotKey user model

 

On 26/04/2019 13:12, jp charras wrote:
> Le 26/04/2019 à 19:21, Jeff Young a écrit :
>> I’ve been talking to Wayne about the ‘W’ and ‘X’ hotkeys.  It appears the design goal is to have these be immediate actions (that is, they start a wire or a track, rather than just selecting the wire or track tool).
>>
>> Presumably this would then also apply to ‘A’, ‘P’, ‘L’, ‘H’, ‘J’, ‘Q’, etc.  (None of these perform an immediate action today, right?)
> 
> Why do you want to change the previous behavior? Is it not good?
> 

Hi JP,

I'm from the 'hotkey activates the tool camp' like Brian (for similar
reasons).

I realize hotkeys and accelerators working *simultaneously* would be
difficult to have, but what about an option to select the 'start tool
here'/'activate tool' hotkey behaviour globally?

Cheers,
Tom



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