If parameter value can be edited text field, open the value in edit text field.

When the user has selected a parameter row & on pressing F2, perform an action equivalent to single click on value field Since not every parameter value can be edited via text field, we can use the following approach

Up & Down arrows does not behave the way a simple text box behaves in a browser such as moving to the start/end of edited text, instead they move the user out of edit mode for some illdefined reasonĪlong with addressing above problems, it would be better for developers if users can start editing parameter value by pressing F2 when a given parameter row is selected.

Using Up/ Down arrows while selecting a choice automatically selects the previous/next value & focuses out of the field for some illdefined reason, instead it should open the popup so that user can select the choice he wants and press enter.

Esc does not restore the old value & move the field into readonly mode.

Ctrl+z & Ctrl+r (Ctrl+Shift+z/Ctrl+Y in most editors) does not undo & redo text thats being edited.Ctrl+a does not select the text completely.Since keyboard is a much superior tool to edit text, synfig should make well known keyboard shortcuts work in most of the places, especially when it comes to the most basic & in heavily used parts of synfig

Currently Synfig makes developers life really hard if they want to use keyboardįor example, if you want to edit the name of a layer/parameter & want to copy paste values from one field to the next, you are forced to use mouse.

Synfig studio keyboard shortcuts