Some hotkeys work only in English.

[Max N]

(B, S, J, ctrl + J and so on) work on any layout.
[ ] - changing size brushes work only in English (checked Russian and English).
As a result, every time you need to change the size of the brush, you need to look at the keyboard layout.

It is especially inconvenient when you work on a tablet.

 

 

[Gabe]

Hi @Max N,

I'm sorry but I don't see how this is a bug. Russian keyboards don't have "[" and "]" keys, but 'Х' and 'Ъ'. If you Go to preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts and change them to those 2 keys, it will work fine. 

[Max N]

7 hours ago, Gabe said:

Hi @Max N,

I'm sorry but I don't see how this is a bug. Russian keyboards don't have "[" and "]" keys, but 'Х' and 'Ъ'. If you Go to preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts and change them to those 2 keys, it will work fine. 

If a topic is moved to an archive thread, is it still under the attention of the developers?

[Gabe]

12 hours ago, Max N said:

If a topic is moved to an archive thread, is it still under the attention of the developers?

What do you mean by this? We don't use the forum to keep track of issues, but have a bug tracking system. So regardless of where a thread is on the forums, it we have acknowledged it's a bug, it will be "active" on the tracking system. What you're describing here it's not a bug, so in this specific case, no. This is not under the attention of our developers. 

[Max N]

On 9/29/2020 at 3:16 PM, Gabe said:

Hi @Max N,

I'm sorry but I don't see how this is a bug. Russian keyboards don't have "[" and "]" keys, but 'Х' and 'Ъ'. If you Go to preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts and change them to those 2 keys, it will work fine. 

I will try to explain.
There is the first type of hotkeys. These are keyboard shortcuts that work the same on both English and Russian keyboard layouts.
B is А
S is Ы
J is О
and everything works correctly.
There is a second type of hotkeys.
[ this is х
] this is ъ
and now they are already sensitive to the language of the keyboard layout.
I have not seen this in any software.
This is how it works in gimp

This is how it works in Photoshop

This is how it works in Blender

but only Affinity

There are two oddities for me. The first oddity is that the hotkeys react to the Russian layout. The second oddity is that not all hotkeys behave this way. This causes great inconvenience during work and forces the user to do unnecessary actions and constantly monitor the keyboard layout. This is very unusual behavior for programs.

 

 

 

[Mark Ingram]

I think this is because we look for the actual character, not the physical key (which is why the shortcut stops working when changing keyboard layout).

[Max N]

11 minutes ago, Mark Ingram said:

I think this is because we look for the actual character, not the physical key (which is why the shortcut stops working when changing keyboard layout).

Why does this not happen with all hotkeys? B, J, S and many others work in Russian.

[Max N]

18 minutes ago, Mark Ingram said:

I think this is because we look for the actual character, not the physical key (which is why the shortcut stops working when changing keyboard layout).

Ctrl+C    Ctrl+V    Ctrl+D - work on Russian and English layouts.

Ctrl+' - works only in English.

I'm already used to switching the layout a hundred times a day if something doesn't work. But for new users, it's a stab. I remember myself, at the first steps of acquaintance with the program, the level of loyalty to it is zero and any inconvenience or problem repels the user by calling it in Photoshop. I am that rare type of user who loves to learn everything new and was able to go through the valley of death and love AP. I forgive all errors, freezes and other problems, I spend time writing error reports, overcoming the language barrier. I want AP to become better, and new users would be comfortable working in the program, so that they would fall in love with it from the first minutes.

[AlainP]

I use a French Canadian keyboard layout and all I have to do is remap some shorcut keys. As long as you use the same physical key it works well. Here " [ " becomes " ^^ " and " ] " becomes " ¸¸" and it works very well.