Hi, I’m running a mac, and idk if this is a mac only problem. Anyways, in both 2.53 and 2.54 upon downloading the official blender.org build, I opened it and discovered that basic keys set up for things such as selection, and rotating the view wouldn’t work. I simply had to go and find all the different options in the user preferences, and change them to the keys that would work. I realize I am not making a lot of sense, so let me give an example. In 2.4x and Alpha 1 and 2, to rotate my view, I held alt and clicked and dragged. Upon opening 2.53, I discovered this did not work, so I popped open user preferences and after a little digging found the rotate view option. It’s default was simply “Middle Mouse”. This was true for selection as well, and anything related to it such as selecting loops. I was simply curious if in the final 2.6 build, this would still be a problem. Or if anyone else is experiencing this. Resetting a few keys is not a big deal, but if I’m following a tutorial and they say to press certain keys, and those keys don’t do what they’re supposed to and I don’t know how to set them correctly it could be an issue.
Yep, they remapped quite a few hotkeys.
Yeah, I understand why they’ve changed things but I wish they would have done it a little more gradual. Having to relearn a lot of things kinda sucks
In user preferences selelct ‘emulate 3 button mouse’. I believe its in the Input section. Then Ctrl+U to save as default.
woo! that worked Richard Markley 
thank you very much
Having to LEARN things that are more difficult then they should be sucks even more.
The controls should be completely refreshed to work logically and as efficient as possible. Just because we tried to keep the hotkeys as simmilar to previous versions as possible, these problems came up or remained: Secondary actions/Tools are left on primary hotkeys, primary actions/tools were put on secondary hotkeys, even hidden behind complex key combinations. Some hotkeys are not as intuitive as they could be. Etc…
I am willing to relearn all the hotkeys. Learning hotkeys is not a problem to me at all. I just really want blender to be as good as it can be for everyone.
“emulate 3 button mouse” is a base for me, because I hate to press middle moust button
About selecting in 2.5 beta - I’m having some problems with remapping circle select tool. I cannot return double B shortcut. I can make it work with double pressing any other letter but no B.