On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Luca Ferretti <elle....@libero.it> wrote: > Il giorno mer, 13/01/2010 alle 08.38 -0500, Dan Winship ha scritto: >> On 01/13/2010 07:47 AM, Luca Ferretti wrote: >> > Il giorno dom, 22/11/2009 alle 16.32 -0800, Sandy Armstrong ha scritto: >> > >> >> Most users I've spoken to about this prefer ctrl+tab because it is >> >> similar to alt+tab, and can be invoked with only the left hand. >> > >> > Ctrl+PgUp/Down can be invoked with only the _right_ hand using right >> > Ctrl key. >> >> Right, but when browsing the web, you'll generally have one hand on the >> mouse for clicking/scrollwheeling, and so for right-handed people, >> having the important keyboard operations be left-hand-only is nice. > > This case seems excessive to me. If you've one hand on your mouse, use > the mouse to change tab, clicking or using the scroll wheel :P
And yet, I was about to respond identically to you before I saw that Dan beat me to it. I believe that right hand on mouse, left hand on keyboard is extremely common. Consider selecting text and copy/pasting, or using ctrl+tab to change tabs, with the mouse in the content area so you can scroll, select text, etc. So while I don't have any data outside my own usage and intuition, I really don't think it's excessive, as you say. > I suppose the scenario for keyboard shortcuts here is both hands on > keyboard (or no ability to use the mouse). I think that's a bit limiting, but even if we were to accept it as true, we can still say that on a full keyboard, ctrl+page up/down requires you to shift your right-hand considerably away from home row, making it fairly inconvenient. Fun fun fun, Sandy _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
