Dear Andreas, It's in principle a nice feature to have, but in general I'm unhappy with the user interface aspects of making a feature work with a specific mouse button. In a pen-based workflow, different buttons do very different things, and in particular when I work in xournal, all drawing operations are left button, all erasing operations are middle button, and all selecting / clipboard / resizing operations are right button -- because those correspond to different pieces of my pen and it wouldn't make logical sense e.g. to use the eraser tip to resize with variable aspect ratio and the side button of the pen to resize with fixed aspect ratio. (I'm also unhappy with the idea of using a keyboard modifier like Control to enable a feature because the Control key is not available in tablet mode).
So: while I'm aware this sort of UI makes perfect sense for mouse-based computing, the hybrid nature of xournal makes it necessary in my mind to refrain from overloading features with modifiers activated by changing the button or pressing a modifier keyboard key. Anyway: I'm not trying to discourage people from having such a feature updated and added to some of the repos, just explaining why in its current form I'm not too excited about it. Best, Denis On 11/22/2013 02:11 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Freitag, 22. November 2013, 08:49:24 schrieb D M German: >> I got some time to clean up my mess. >> >> I have uploaded two features that I can't live without: >> > > Hi Denis, Daniel et al, > > here's a feature request... on the bugtracker there is a patch [*] to enable > resizing of selected objects with constant aspect ratio with the right mouse > button. Very useful, especially for images. > > May I ask you consider that for inclusion? > > The patch doesnt apply anymore since the code moved to different files... I'll > try to come up with an updated one in a couple of days, but since I'm no real > coder... > > Best, > Andreas > > [*] http://sourceforge.net/p/xournal/patches/58/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription > Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. > Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing > conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xournal-devel mailing list > Xournal-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xournal-devel > -- Denis Auroux aur...@math.berkeley.edu University of California, Berkeley Tel: 510-642-4367 Department of Mathematics Fax: 510-642-8204 817 Evans Hall # 3840 Berkeley, CA 94720-3840 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shape the Mobile Experience: Free Subscription Software experts and developers: Be at the forefront of tech innovation. Intel(R) Software Adrenaline delivers strategic insight and game-changing conversations that shape the rapidly evolving mobile landscape. Sign up now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63431311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Xournal-devel mailing list Xournal-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xournal-devel
