Gijs wrote in Tue Nov 29, 2016 9:47 am:Hi Jack,
Feel free to make your suggestion here, so other users can comment. If there's interest in your suggestion, and the forum team agrees on it, we'll add it.
Cheers,
Gijs
PS: We call them subforums
Gijs, thank you,
OK on calling them "subforums"!
There is much content about joystick bindings and keyboard bindings here in the forum as well as in the official documentation.
But there is little content about mouse bindings in either the global (mice.xml and preferences.xml) sense, or in the per aircraft sense.
Therefore, would it be of any benefit to establish a persistent forum branch dedicated to the topic of "mouse bindings" ?
I propose that it would benefit the entire FG community to have a forum branch dedicated solely to the topic of "mice/mouse bindings".
At present, many have trouble with mouse bindings, and their posts are scattered everywhere throughout the forum.
I propose that it is better to bring all such users together into one place. To do so would be more efficient.
I propose that in the "Support" part of the forum, a dedicated subtopic be established and maintained, and that it be titled "mouse bindings".
After all, it is mouse bindings that ultimately define the quality of the end user's experience in FlightGear.
It is mouse bindings that govern whether or not a particular aircraft is useable at all by any flyer.
Thank you for showing me how to propose/post, I appreciate that.
I propose here.
Edit ten minutes later:
I propose that in the "Support" subforum, there should be a persistent, maintained subforum titled "Input bindings"
And that in that subforum "Input bindings", there should be three subfora, namely:
1. Mouse bindings
2. Keyboard bindings
3. Joystick bindings
I believe that establishing this subforum and its three descendant subfora would benefit the FG community greatly.
For those needing help, it would give them a specific place to seek help.
For those giving wisdom, it would give them a specific place to give their wisdom.
Doing so would declutter and de-constipate the forum as it is, and would put all persons with similar interests into the same forum category.
Most important, doing so would help the newcomers to FlightGear to find a place to address their input problems, and would result in a quicker turnaround time from problem presentation to problem resolution for them, resulting in a greater overall customer satisfaction with the FlightGear product.
This translates into more good will for Flightgear as opposed to more frustration and badmouthing of Flightgear over any input issue. Understand that new users will badmouth Flightgear under their breath and then publicly if they cannot get their mouse to control their aircraft as they think it should. They will blame Flightgear, they will badmouth Flightgear in the public arena.
My proposal is all three sound and efficient and beneficial for all involved.
It is the right thing to do.
cj