> power users would profit while a larger group of people would get > confused more easily and find it harder to get help.
Most non-trivial applications have configurable shortcuts and it doesn't seem to cause much troubles. Can you imagine a text editor, DAW or video editing software without configurable shortcuts? Regular users simply stick with the default shortcuts anyway. I think Cyrille didn't really argue against user configurable shortcuts: > > having user-configurable shortcut can be nice, but having default > > shortcut that works for 90% of users seem more important. I think the takeaway is: have good default shortcuts + make them configurable Christof > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. November 2019 um 13:30 Uhr > Von: "Roman Haefeli" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [PD] configurable short-cut: WAS Re: find last error brings up > subpatch or abstraction, but how to find parent? > > On Wed, 2019-11-27 at 10:24 +0100, cyrille henry wrote: > > > > Le 26/11/2019 à 12:15, IOhannes m zmölnig a écrit : > > > On 11/25/19 9:00 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote: > > > > Personally, I use this so often it would warrant its own keyboard > > > > shortcut. > > > > > > i use this so seldomly, that i wouldn't have thought about adding a > > > keyboard shortcut. > > > > > > anyhow: i think the way forward is to make the shortcuts > > > user-configurable, so everybody can map whatever they prefer to any > > > menu-option. > > > > I personally use pd on lot's of different computer, including > > computers that are not mine. > > having user-configurable shortcut can be nice, but having default > > shortcut that works for 90% of users seem more important. > > I tend to join Cyrilles's camp here. I value consistency across > installations more than configurability. I believe a small subset of Pd > power users would profit while a larger group of people would get > confused more easily and find it harder to get help. > > Roman > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> https://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
