@ncic said in Some dragging operations (drag selecting or pan/zoom navigating) not responding sometimes:
@Boldline @VectorStyler
Great discussion
From a personal perspective i find tools that are in the same toolbar category sharing the same keyboard shortcut toggling between them a bit problematic.
Its ok in less used tools as it has the benefit of saving amount of shortcuts that are taken, but tools one switches between often is where ive found it more problematic.
It introduces greater risk of accidentaly activting the wrong tool and therefore also increases the demand on the user to pay attention to the interface (for instance toolbar icons or cursor icon) or more cognitive load by remembering the amount of shortcut presses done so that the correct tool is selected before an operation.
This is especially demanding where the toolbar item has maybe three to four tools that share the same key.
For example the brush, pencil, color replacemnt and mixer brush in Photoshop are tedious if youre jumping between pencil and brush as you have to count every time to know where you are and to skip over tools to get to where you want.
Alternatively the user could find out by error after using the tool. If its the wrong one, the user has to step back a few steps to redo the correct steps.
Ive also experienced this leakage of focus and energy when using Clip Studio Pro that uses this type of method of sharing a shortcut between different tools in the same category.
I stay away from customizing and apps shortcuts unless i really need too but i found in CSP because of this it became necessary to set more uniqe shortcuts for the tools used to avoid the problem described above.
I agree with you overall, that would be confusing if they all shared the same key shortcut. I'm not advocating for using the same shortcut key for all tools in a section, but allowing the ability to hit the specific shortcut key a second time to go back to the original tool used located elsewhere in the toolbar completely. So if I'm using the pen tool and then tap on "m", I have the magic wand tool until I click "m" again and I'm back on pen tool.
