From koffice-devel  Wed Nov 30 14:07:01 2005
From: Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:07:01 +0000
To: koffice-devel
Subject: Re: modifier keys.
Message-Id: <200511301507.02590.zander () kde ! org>
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On Wednesday 30 November 2005 14:13, Casper Boemann wrote:
> > No, since guides are useless unless they are seen and so I feel that
> > pressing shift should never enable them. =A0Note that snap-to-guides
> > are always enabled when they are showing for about the same reason.
>
> Hmm, but you have to think autoguides into the equation.
>
> Autoguides are often much more useful than grid and not being able to
> enable them on demand is a problem inho. Or should they always be on
> and shift being the only way to disable. I could live with that, BUT
> what if grid was off. Then you would disable autoguides and enable grid
> - no way to know what the user intended

I was thinking the following to be the most usefull approach;
first, auto guides is the same thing as guides. The disabling of it goes=20
via 1 entry in the view menu, which switches both off/on.

* Enable guides and auto-guides by default.  The guides are not going to=20
get in anyones way unless someone actually creates them.
* if I press shift and grid is off then from then on moving will only=20
listen to the grid.
* If you press shift and grid is on then you can move the object=20
completely free without anything 'bothering' it.


The only case that is not covered is when the user has snap-to-grid off=20
and moves / scales an object but for this drag he wants to use guides as=20
well as grid. The user can't simply press shift for that, he has to alter=20
his view menu and turn on grid. I find that a minor problem since I'm=20
thinking this is the least used usecase that we are now not covering.

=2D-=20
Thomas Zander

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