Shock horror, the other day I was actually using AbiWord, eating dogfood as it were. It is a rare occassion when i actually have need to do word processing rather than text editing. I was adding lots of Hyperlinks and really wished i had a keybinding for it. (I was writting up instructions how to convert Abiword documents to Postscript then PDF. I will add a unix section if provided with the necessary information. I hope to put it on my website today/tomorrow.)
Add shortcut for Hyperlink Ctrl + L would be the same as Mozilla composer uses but Ctrl+L is already taken for Left Justifing a Paragraph, which is far to standard to change. MSWord 97 uses Ctrl+K for Insert Hyperlink. MSWord 97 does not seem to have a keybinding for Strikethrough (crappy documentation). Abiword already uses Ctrl+K for strikethrough. I recommend we change strikethrough to something else and use Ctrl+K for Hyperlink. Unforunately Ctrl+K conflicts with the Gnome Usability guidelines, but we should follow the defacto standard. Something has to give somewhere. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/ So does anyone have a better idea what keybinding to use for Insert Hyperlink? And what keybinding if any should we use for strikethrough? Also the cursor should be in the text box automatically, in Windows I have to click to put the cursor there which is a totally unnecessary extra step which is not good if you are doing a repeatative task. This problem also made me realise how many keybindings Word actually has (loads) and Abiword there are a lot of useful keybings Abiword should have. I will probably file an RFE recommending a full audit of the Keybindings for 1.2 Sincerely Alan Horkan http://abisource.com http://bugzilla.abisource.com http://matrix.netsoc.tcd.ie/~horkana/ http://xenu.net
