On 14 April 2016 at 20:14, Richard Duivenvoorde <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Most drawing programs (like inkscape) have one zoom tool, which toggle > between zoomin/zoomout with ctrl or shift button. > > This looks like not so difficult to do? We could keep the two buttons as > now, but also toggle them to the alternative temporarily when you push > shift of control. > > Others think this is usefull? > Or see problems?
I've always found the having 3 separate tools for basic navigation a bit weird, switching seems a waste of time and mouse movement, especially when you're interacting using other tools and need to navigate without breaking your use of your current tool. While we have mouse wheel scrolling in all tools, it's imprecise, so a set of consistent keyboard modifiers that applied in all map tools would be a good thing. At work we've been experimenting with a single navigation map tool to 'do it all', currently: * Left Click: Zoom in one step * Left Click and drag: Zoom in to selected area * Right Click: Zoom out one step * Right Click and drag: Pan map canvas That's in addition to the existing standard functions: * Mouse wheel: Zoom in/out * Space bar + mouse move: Pan map canvas I've also been thinking about using ctrl to switch to selection mode. The problem we're having is that this is a bit inconsistent with our custom editing map tools where unmodified left/right click is obviously for drawing or feature interaction, so we move the zoom to the shift button. We could make the navigation tool consistent by moving zooming to the shift button too, but then what does an unmodified click mean? Panning? Selection? Identify? Anyway, the point is a set of standard modifiers would save me some code and give our users a more consistent experience outside our own tools. John. _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
