[josm-dev] Please do not change long established shortcuts

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Wed, 2 May 2012, Russ Nelson wrote:

> Alan Mintz writes:
> > I don't use it every day, but those who draw buildings do (or should). Draw
> > the roof of a tall building. Drag (usually somewhat diagonally) the whole
> > (closed) way to move it to the correct ground position, based on whichever
> > corner is visible at ground level.
>
> Ahhhh, yes, of course. I wonder if shift-drag might not be appropriate
> for such uses, to split out that functionality from selection? I mean,
> how many times have you tried to draw a box around something, and
> found yourself dragging a way??
>
> Given that the behavior is pernicious enough to warrant a protection
> warning, maybe it shouldn't be on the bare "drag" action?

Please open a ticket for this and continue discussion there. It seems 
sensible to me to make this a less easy acessible function. Today we have 
a lot of additional work methods, so dragging ways is probably not that 
important as it was in the past.

Ciao
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