[josm-dev] Shortcuts

Dirk Stöcker openstreetmap at dstoecker.de
Fri Feb 17 07:13:39 GMT 2012


On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Ilya Zverev wrote:

> For example, most drawing shortcuts - A, S, Q, X and W until recently - are 
> situated in the left part of the keyboard. So mapping is one hand on those 
> keys, and right hand on a mouse. Now those shortcuts have started to spread 
> to all of the keyboard, dramatically increasing mileage of finger movements. 
> So, even if you don't like moving building_tools back to W, please consider 
> using D for it: delete action so close to S key has been the reason for many 
> swear words and Ctrl+Z (another left-hand shortcut!) presses.

B is as well reachable by left hand as D. We wont change that again only 
why some people feel that 3 cm are too much. Sorry, but this is nonsense. 
We have more that 250 shortcuts to worry about, we wont discuss about some 
centimeters here!

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