heda wrote: ↑Sun May 09, 2021 1:15 pm
@ chris wesley
ui bible or not, why not just start a new wiki page with the title "possible gui improvements".
make a table there and fill in things that you would like to see improved.
I think that a wiki page is not the right place, a forum thread is more taylored.
+1 for a list of shortcuts:
But i see some problems, or better, having not used the GUI so much (I'm working almost all my time with scripting):
1) shortcuts will change between UI languages.
2) shortcuts are workbench related? if yes, what to do with "deprecated workbench"?
3) shortcuts have to mime some other widespread software, left out the "CTRL-X, CTRL-C, CTRL-V, CTRL-Z, CTRL-S", that although are windows derived are now almost everywhere with same behaviour. Complex shortcut, like those with two modifiers, like "CTRL-ALT" or "CTRL-WIN" are applicable to MacOS?
Not to criticize, only to begin to have some "common UI guidelines".
Better to start to collect in another thread, a list of "actual" shortcuts, for at least the most used WB like Part, Draft, TechDraw, Sketcher (as an example proposal, feel free to add other generally used workbenches?)
I think that is a decent base to start with.
Having such list maybe will help to "draw a better view" of the "state of the art" in FreeCAD now.
Some ideas, and rantings:
- analyze this "set" of shortcuts and eventually decide if something has to be changed, in relation maybe to some other used widespread CAD to make the learning curve "less difficult".
- give maybe a more "organic view" if the "actual state" is caotic or maybe not much "mnemonic" (if languages adaptions are not modifying the things)
After having done this preliminary work, if it is not present elsewhere, maybe if all seems correct, the list could be put in a wiki page, and the work is not done "in vain".
But this has to be discussed at least with some developers or WB mantainers, to take in account things that maybe a "normal user" could not see.
my two cents.
Carlo D.