Spacebar for play and pause
Proposal: We should have Spacebar to start and stop animation playback. It is pretty standard in most animation and editing softwares.
We can have "~" (tilda) key for search so that it is easily accessible.
Proposal: We should have Spacebar to start and stop animation playback. It is pretty standard in most animation and editing softwares.
We can have "~" (tilda) key for search so that it is easily accessible.
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I believe something like this has been implemented just two hours before the OP :)
git.blender.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi/blender.git/commit/0cac506f6ee03cdf957aa6c0f361d3416086fa20
That is, if I understand the commit correctly.
Not every one uses Blender for animation. So, not a fan of this.
In 2.8 it will be <kbd>Shift</kbd><kbd>Spacebar</kbd> if I'm correct. It's nice to me, as spacebar is an easy access button and I don't think it would be a good idea to assign it to something a huge part of user don't need, adding <kbd>Shift</kbd> is a nice compromise.
~ is different in all the keyboard layouts. For example in English keyboard, it's in a place where I have *' I also need search much more than play button. However, if you wanna change the shortcut, just rightclick the button and select "change shortcut"
@Artturi Mäntysaari: I agree with using space to play, but keeping search at a sensible place (space for search was fantastic but they just want to hide one of the best functions of b3d)
Can i go back in history and slap the person who suggested this? It also starts it in any mode, so now everyone else who are not using Blender for animation has to suffer from unusual behavior for modelling software.. Horrible, horrible suggestion.
* @squidcap * Em... Just manage your preferences maybe?
