Holding CTRL then SPACE to zoom

[ftesla]

Hi!

Please... allow CTRL then SPACE to be hold to enter zoom (in Photo, Designer, Publisher)

Or clarify why it will ever be done so some of us know if they have to drop Serif (which would be a pain but...)

Regards,

Francis

[moonliiner]

You can reset any of the keyboard shortcuts as you wish. Go to Preferences then select Tools in the dropdown and change the Zoom Tool from Z to whatever you want. When in the Zoom tool press Option for zoom out

[sunteam]

This has been a constant bugbear with me too (although mostly in Publisher). I'm always wrestling with it, having pushed CTRL a millisecond too early. It's probably just muscle memory from Adobe, but I don't see any reason why the zoom can't kick in regardless of the order that they are pushed; it can get very frustrating.

[Funkflow]

I agree with ftesla.

It should always trigger zoom tool when CTRL + SPACE are both pressed and hold whether you press and hold CTRL first or Space first.

This is bad UX if the developer doesn't have specific contradiction to do so.

[Keram]

It's a big problem for me too. I'm not sure why the Affinity team forces their point while customers, who pay them, say they want something different.
It's just ergonomics! When you hold your hand on a keyboard, your "pinky" finger is lower, therefore it always wants to touch the Ctrl button a bit quicker than a thumb touching the space bar. You, the Affinity team, are forcing an unnatural twisting wrist to ensure the space bar is touched first.
I don't care about your programming logic.
Software should solve humans' problems, not customers get wrist pain because it is easier for you to develop software in this way.

[JO512]

I too would really, really appreciate if I could zoom by pressing CTRL first, hold it down, and then press spacebar. It feels really unnatural to press spacebar first. Usually, in all other applications, when there is a key combination like that, CTRL or ALT or SHIFT are always pressed before the other key. It isn't DEL+ALT+CTRL, but the reverse. If you want a capital letter, you don't hit the letter first and then SHIFT. Decades of muscle memory are hard to overcome. I'm trying to migrate from Adobe to Affinity, but this is a real sticking point for me.