I'm not against, though in my mind, flip means flipping a page from front to back, not mirroring it :-)

Halla

On donderdag 2 november 2023 14:17:07 CET Alvin Wong wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Currently we refer to the actions for flipping layers / objects / the
> image / the view as "mirror". This can be confusing considering we also
> have the mirror tools which actually mirror brush strokes like a mirror.
>
> I propose we reword these actions to use the word "flip" to remove this
> ambiguity. I did some quick searches and it seems many graphics
> applications (including GIMP, PS, CSP, Inkscape, Paint .NET) also use
> "flip" to describe these actions, so this also appears to be the more
> common terminology.
>
> There is a catch though, the "Mirror View" action has the default hotkey
> "M", if we rename it to "Flip View" then this hotkey becomes detached
> from the name of the action (although this is already the case in some
> languages). I am not sure how acceptable this is.
>
> What do you think about this?
>
> Cheers,
> Alvin
>
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