[Replace the ALT key with CTRL]

9 hours ago, JRENG! said:

I've been struggling to wrap my head around this problem too.

Yes it is a problem, because other application that i use daily (Blender, Davinci Resolve, Fusion, even DAW like REAPER) OOTB used Cmd + Mousewheel to Zoom In/Out. Intuitively it is like a standard convention.

Currently only Affinity Designer/Photo use Alt + Mousewheel to Zoom on my system. Thus, every single time i need to zoom, i end up rotating my canvas instead. It is very tedious, to reset to rotation (because it is also NOT undoable, not something easily reverted with a common keyboard shortcut). Zooming In/Out is a something we all do most of the time in Designer anyway, it's used more often than rotating canvas.

A very common most used task such as Zoom In/Out with wrong mouse modifier often make me lost my train of thoughts, because i have to set and remember another keyboard shortcut just to reset the rotation or diving into menus searching the right command to reset the canvas.

That is a very poor user experience.

If it's something idiosyncratic to the way Designer/Photo designed/programmed, at least give users the options to swap Cmd vs Alt as modifiers to Zoom / Rotate canvas.

I second that, it should be considered since it it covers various problems here like the canvas rotation not being undoable, the aspect of loosing creative focus over it and the fact that choosing ALT over CMD / CTRL just creates one more barrier when reaching out to new users who are currently using PS or similar industry standard tools.

 

[Replace the ALT key with CTRL]

Thank you Dan, that does help me a lot! 🙂

[Replace the ALT key with CTRL]

I would like to second the request for a way to change the behavior of the ALT key, especially to stop me from rotating my workspace everytime I want to zoom in or out as a past Photoshop user.

Thanks,

Sebastian