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#189 Zoom shortcut key consistency

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nobody
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2015-08-14
2014-12-16
Calebrw
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I realize that there are different keyboard configurations, but generally the hyphen and underscore are combined as are the plus sign and the equal sign. The issues is that the + and - signs are on the same level, that is you need to use the shift key to get to the + key.

Would it make sense to allow for use of both keys with or without the Shift for zooming, just so you don't have to shift to zoom in and hit a single key to zoom out.

Discussion

  • Mike Pope

    Mike Pope - 2015-08-01
    • Priority: 5 --> 6
     
  • wintertime

    wintertime - 2015-08-01

    I always thought you were supposed to preferably use the + and - on the numpad (as they are easy to find and work without shift), though on, for example, my keyboard the + and - from the alphanumeric part can be both used without shift.
    This is a problem where you can not please everyone, as those miscellaneous keys are mapped differently in nearly every available language or even 3 layouts for a single language.
    If you map ~ and = to the same action, it could give weird problems with blocking some other action from being used on a different keyboard layout or causing not wanted map zoom while using the key for the unrelated action.

     

    Last edit: wintertime 2015-08-01

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