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 -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| Hårdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
