[Cin] Looking into minimal alternative Shortcuts

[daniel-cinelerra-gg at opayq.com]

I always think that potentially destructive operations like 'save' or 'delete', when assigned to single keystrokes, can be dangerous.  We are much less likely to accidentally touch of ctrl+s than we are to accidentally type s.  I have had a number of occasions where i'm working on complex projects with nested edls and accidentally saved my error, requiring me to retrace my steps.

Speaking of this, I would like to suggest incorporating a feature which has frequently saved me in audio work: automatic backups.  Mixbus (and to my knowledge, Ardour), make periodic automatic snapshots of the active session tagged with date and time.  That way, if I screw something up, I can recover a version from an hour or two previous without having to start over again.  I don't know if this could be compatible with the Cinelerra model of not collecting session materials in a single folder, but it certainly has been a help in those few times I needed it!

Thanks for all the work everyone is doing!

Dan

>     On 09/08/2020 9:26 AM Igor BEGHETTO via Cin  <> wrote:
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>     I think that a software must to do user's life more easy, if possible, because user will use the software. Then the question is (for all software): can Developers make the user's life more easy? If yes it is welcome.
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>     Many softwares use "Ctrl+S" to save and they are not only for Office, I think: Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, AutoCad, Blender, Solidworks, Audacity, Kdenlive, Shotcut, Adobe Premiere, and so on. It is a standard as meter is the base unit of length in the international System of Units (SI). ;-)
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>     May be that a specific software don't use "Ctrl+S" to save but, what is the reason? (I would ask to the CCPNMR Developer)
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>     Shorcuts are used to optimize your work and, if possible, shortcuts (and the position of the key on the keyboard) should be intuitive. For all NLEs there is a standard: J-K-L.
>     For example some of my shortcuts are:
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>     J - K - L (Play Normal reverse - Stop - Play Normal forward) if pressed twice J (or L), its Play Fast or Normal.
>     I - O (InPoint - OutPoint)
>     A - S (Jump backwards next cut - Jump forwards next cut)
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>     To summarize the jumps backwards and forward:
>     ----------------------------------+-------------------+-------------------+
>     -Jump backwards to the next cut   | Alt+LeftArrow,  'A'
>     -Jump forwards to the next cut    | Alt+RightArrow, 'S'
>     -Jump backwards to the next label | Ctrl+LeftArrow
>     -Jump forwards to the next label  | Ctrl+RightArrow
>     -Jump backwards... next Keyframes | Shift+LeftArrow
>     -Jump forward... next Keyframes   | Shift+RightArrow
>     -Jump backwards to the next Autos | Ctrl+Shift+Alt+LeftArrow
>     -Jump forward to the next Autos   | Ctrl+Shift+Alt+RightArrow
>     ----------------------------------+-------------------+-------------------+
>     "Shift+K" and "Ctrl+Shift+K" no longer used.
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>     Unfortunately, I don't think that my shortcuts can be implemented in Cinelerra-GG because it means to map completely the assignement of the shortcuts. And I understand that many users (old users?) don't want to change their assignement. I understand them (I no longer have the old "Move tracks Up/Dn" and theyr shortcuts ).
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