The upcoming pie menu's should make the 3 way switch pretty easy. The piemenus addon in contrib already has functionality for proportional editing on the 'o' key.
The best place for suggestions like this is probably the bf-funboard ("Functionality Board") mailing list. -Sean On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Hadrien Brissaud <hadris...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello all, > > first thing : is it the right mailing list for tiny suggestions like this > one ? Please read on and tell me so I don't get it wrong. It is a usability > idea. > > I often use proportional edit when modeling, however I sometimes use > "connected" and sometimes not, and I don't systematically remember which. > In the spur of the moment, I often happen to hit "o" or "alt+o" and find > myself toggling the other proportional edit mode, when I just want to turn > it off ! > > With the new "projected" mode this rather irritating issue embiggens, as > one would have to stumble between three modes and their corresponding > hotkeys before getting what they want. Hence this suggestion. > > I suggest to make proportional edit a boolean, like snapping, and keep an > additional menu from which you could select the proportional edit type > (normal, connected, projected). "o" would toggle proportional edit on and > off, and alt+o or shift+o would switch between modes. > > Thank you for your great work, > > Hadrien > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- ||------------------ Instant Messengers ---------------------- || ICQ at 11133295 || AIM at shatterstar98 || MSN Messenger at shatte...@hotmail.com || Yahoo Y! at the_7th_samuri ||---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers