View improvements

[mbway]

Some changes to the 3D view that I find useful:

• I changed view rotation to behave like blender in a way that I find much more usable. I'm not sure if the behaviour has a specific name, but I would describe it as 'orbit':
  • x movement rotates the view about the world z-axis passing through the point that the camera is looking at
  • y movement rotates the view about the local y-axis passing through the point that the camera is looking at
  • I find with the previous rotation handling, that it is very hard to look at something without the view being tilted in an undesirable way
  • I added an option in the preferences to switch between this mode and the original (with orbit set as default)
• zoom handles scroll delta properly. This is especially important for laptop trackpads where wheel events are triggered even for tiny movements but with a small delta. Before the change the delta value was not taken into account which caused erratic zooming that was difficult to control.
• the toolbar background color is set to grey so that the icons are more visible when a dark theme is used
  • another approach would be to create icons for dark mode but this is simpler
  • also set tooltip backgrounds to improve legibility
• unrelated to the view, I added support for exiting the application with Ctrl+C

Demo of the new rotation behaviour:

orbit.mp4

toolbar before and after:

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[marcus7070]

I've pulled and built this. I'm a huge fan of that orbital movement! ctrl-c also works nice. I don't have a dark theme at hand so I didn't test that aspect.

[mbway]

I don't really mind that this hasn't been merged because I created this functionality for my own use as well, but is there a reason that no-one has looked at this for 5 months?

[adam-urbanczyk]

Thanks for opening the PR. Lack of time / you want to change the default behavior without first discussing.

[mbway]

apologies if I didn't follow the correct procedure. I didn't see any instructions for contributors so I assumed any discussion would happen here. I'm fine with setting the original behaviour as the default, that would be trivial to change

[adam-urbanczyk]

If you want to change something it is better to open an issue first. I'll try to take a look but TBH this is not the highest prio ATM and I'm rather conservative regarding adding new functionality/complicating the codebase.

BTW: The ctrl-c is stuff is definitely worth adding.

[mbway]

by the way, I found that FreeCAD calls this mode 'Turntable' (in preferences > Display > Navigation > Orbit Style)

[roel-v]

Any chance this can be picked up again? I too find the default navigation behavior a lot more difficult to use than the way it works in Blender. I wanted to work on this myself but I'm quite happy to see there is already a patch. Should this maybe be split into separate pull requests for each of the issues it covers?

[mbway]

I haven't used CQ-editor in ages but I merged with master and renamed the setting to match blender terminology that I think was established after this PR, or maybe I just didn't find it before.

I haven't tested extensively but in a quick test everything seems to be working