Drawtool: "Clear" is assigned to Backspace. Why not Del?

I think delete is more natural accelerator for “clear” action than backspace.
Any objections?


Regards,
Konstantin

On Oct 25, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:

I think delete is more natural accelerator for “clear” action than backspace.
Any objections?

my laptop does not have a del button.

25.10.2010, 21:36, “Eric Brown” eric.c.brown@mac.com:

On Oct 25, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:

I think delete is more natural accelerator for “clear” action than backspace.
Any objections?

my laptop does not have a del button.

my condolences :frowning:


Regards,
Konstantin

On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:41:26 +0100, Konstantin Tokarev annulen@yandex.ru
wrote:

25.10.2010, 21:36, “Eric Brown” eric.c.brown@mac.com:

On Oct 25, 2010, at 11:25 AM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:

I think delete is more natural accelerator for “clear” action than
backspace.
Any objections?

my laptop does not have a del button.

my condolences :frowning:

Mac laptops (I’ve seen) don’t have a proper delete button, but the
equivalent is the somewhat non-obvious Fn-Backspace. I definitely agree
with Delete being more ‘natural’ and more in fitting with probable user
expectation. (Not least based on my finding that I often press it instead
of backspace before I remember.)

-Ian

On Oct 25, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Ian Kirker wrote:

Mac laptops (I’ve seen) don’t have a proper delete button, but the
equivalent is the somewhat non-obvious Fn-Backspace.

I’ve seen many laptops and keyboards without a delete key over the years. I personally thought it was the natural key, since most people touch-type by hitting backspace as needed. I have to think to use the delete key.

Fortunately, there are solutions to Avogadro… Qt lets you attach multiple keys to the same QAction. So for example, I believe we already attach Control-Backspace to “Clear” as well.

We can attach as many keys as we want!
-Geoff

Fortunately, there are solutions to Avogadro… Qt lets you attach multiple keys to the same QAction. So for example, I believe we already attach Control-Backspace to “Clear” as well.

We can attach as many keys as we want!

Submitted change to Gerrit


Regards,
Konstantin