Re: lines

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Tim Ellis wrote:
>>  It
>> seems to me that it's reasonable to have Ctrl+(move element handle) be
>> fixed aspect resize (though shift might be a better choice).  I can see
>> few cases where you really need to have horizontal/vertical movement for
>> resizing elements.  The same problems would apply whether we use a key
>> modifier or a menu entry.
> 
> Perhaps a useless bit of info, but relevent to certain people: many
> window managers capture one of the modifier keys to allow moving or
> resizing the window itself. I think it's almost always the ALT modifier
> on x86 boxen.
> 
> It rather annoyed me that Gimp overloaded the ALT key for some tools.

Yes, there's definitely a problem.  I think it's the WM's fault, mainly.
Emacs has used Alt & Control for ages.

If you happen to have a keyboard with Windows keys, they usually map to
Hyper.  The only sensible use for them is to have them be the WM modifier
key.

I would like to keep off Alt, though.  Hopefully, we can make do with
Control (or Shift, as it may be).

-Lars

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