Thanks, Jeremy. I can wait until the next build. I just fear that in the future when GIMP is 16 bit-enabled and I will be exporting to it from within dt for the heavy lifting of images that my feeble mind will become hopelessly entangled trying to keep two Ctrl-Z functionalities separate.
And thanks, Michael, for the history lesson. I did not even think of the suspend function of Ctrl-Z pre-dating its undo ability. Jack On 14-01-22 12:45 AM, jeremy rosen wrote: > Originally, the patch was proposed with ctrl-Z, we agreed on IRC that > shift-Z was a better idea and somehow managed to not fix it before release > :P > > now we just need someone to change it. A few questions, though > > * does this force a change in the usermanual (if yes, then the change > should only be applied to master) > * does this change the shortcut for all people that hve not explicitely > rebound ? (I consider that fine for master, a bit more problematic for > stable, others may disagree) > > in any case, a pull-request might speed things up considerably, if anybody > is looking for an easy contribution... > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Michael Schuster <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Jack Bowling <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> As has been mentioned before, Ctrl-z is the long-anointed key combo for >>> UNDO in GIMP and many other unix-based programs. Could we please change >>> the default focus zone combo to shift-z in dt so there will not be this >>> heinous disconnect? >>> >> >> sorry to pipe in (slightly off-topic), a correction seems in order: in >> Unix-land, ^Z is frequently used to stop (put on hold, not terminate) a >> commandline process that's running in the foreground so you get the >> terminal back (in shells that have job control). Using ^Z as "undo" was >> imported from Windows when GUIs and graphical applications made their way >> into unix. >> >> That doesn't invalidate your argument that using ^Z for anything else than >> undo in darktable is probably counter-productive :-) >> >> cheers & keep up the good work! >> Michael >> -- >> Michael Schuster >> http://recursiveramblings.wordpress.com/ >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
