Auto Convert Text to Curves is annoying

[hOSHI]

Hey,
this happens much to often. Especially if you come from Photoshop:

Working with text is fine so far, but when accidentally pressing ctrl+enter after editing a text (which is what we are all used to: photoshop or messengers), the text is converted (without warning) into curves.

Most of the time i don't realize it until much later (too late).

This is annoying.

Please at least give a warning. Or an option to NOT convert text. I see no use for this functionality. If we work with text, we want to use text, unless we want to explicitly convert it to some static vector thing.

There is no reason to make this default behaviour.

[hOSHI]

You are a lifesaver
I did search the setting pages, but never would have looked there.

Just changed it. Even with your help it took a while to find it. Very well hidden ...

[R C-R]

7 hours ago, hOSHI said:

Even with your help it took a while to find it. Very well hidden ...

If you inspect the application menus you should see that Settings use the same order, so for example since on the Layer menu you will find Convert to Curves about half way down in that menu's choices, you will find it in the same relative place in Settings, after all the submenu items above it like all the Geometry & Adjustment submenu items. 

[walt.farrell]

On 11/4/2023 at 6:11 PM, R C-R said:

If you inspect the application menus you should see that Settings use the same order, so for example since on the Layer menu you will find Convert to Curves about half way down in that menu's choices, you will find it in the same relative place in Settings, after all the submenu items above it like all the Geometry & Adjustment submenu items. 

The Shortcuts are arranged differently between Windows and macOS. On Windows, they are more alphabetical.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

The Shortcuts are arranged differently between Windows and macOS. On Windows, they are more alphabetical.

But for all the shortcuts that appear in any of the menus, are they at least grouped together in the menu they appear in?

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

But for all the shortcuts that appear in any of the menus, are they at least grouped together in the menu they appear in?

Yes. All the shortcuts for Layer will be with Layer. But I was commenting on your comment that you could look at the menu and determine roughly where the shortcut will be in the shortcut list. On Windows, you can't.

Consider the Layer menu, for example. The menu starts with Group, Ungroup, Ungroup All, then (from memory) Arrange. On Mac that's the order the Shortcuts dialog shows them, too. On Windows, it's all the Arrange items, all the Align items, and somewhere later Group, then some other stuff, and near the end Ungroup and Ungroup All.

[R C-R]

29 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

But I was commenting on your comment that you could look at the menu and determine roughly where the shortcut will be in the shortcut list.

Yes, I understand that. I was just curious if on Windows it was at least still sorted into menu categories, & you have answered that so thanks for that. 😄

Now that I think about it, I think alphabetical sorting is a little more user-friendly than sorting by menu order ... but either way I wish the search field in Settings worked better for shortcuts so if for example I just typed "Convert" in it , it would show me all the 'convert to' items in the shortcuts section & filter out the rest.