[josm-dev] Shortcuts

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:

> 2012/2/15 Dirk Stöcker <openstreetmap at dstoecker.de>:
>> What you want is the reverse and this means keeping old behaviour for
>> everybody instead of moving into the future.
>
> what is the benefit of "moving into the future" by changing shortcuts?
> This is fighting against peoples habits and ergo also bad for
> usability (of the experienced users, for new users this is not an
> issue, I agree). "Keeping old behaviour" should be the standard for
> interface issues, if there is not very good reason to do so. Sorry for

When we change a shortcut, then there is a reason, e.g. a conflict. So 
some people need to change their behaviour, as keeping old style is out of 
question. So rather than get mixed setup depending on installation 
specific the default should be the one we document on the webpage.

> this rant, then from someone beeing not even a code contributor, but I
> really suffered hard from the recent change of shortcut "w" (before
> buildings plugin, I use this VERY often, now "refine way", which I
> never use).

You can change that as you know.

We have too many shortcut conflicts and we need to unify this. And this 
means that some users need to accept changes. The other option would be to 
keep the chaos we currently have.

If the default would be to keep everything as is, we copy all these 
troubles a long time into the future. So we have one break now and later 
on wikis and forums on docs refer to one setup and not to a user specific 
setup.

Ciao
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