Hi, I don't know if this is the place to discuss this, but I have a request concerning text cursor movement as it is controlled via the arrow keys on the keyboard.
Currently on all Linux desktops that I am aware of the text cursor can be moved like this via the UP and DOWN arrow keys: up arrow move cursor to next text line up - if at top-most text line do nothing down arrow move cursor to next text line down - if at bottom-most text line do nothing This is the same way that Windows moves the text cursor. It isn't very efficient and forces the user to lay on the left or right arrow keys to get to the very beginning or the very end or the text block. I've used Mac OS (7-9 and OSX) at school and at work for 20+ years now. Nobody wants to hear it, but Apple has developed a very useful behavior for moving the text cursor via the arrow keys. Here's how the Apple OS behavior works: up arrow move cursor to next text line up - if at top-most text line, move cursor to beginning of text block/text input down arrow move cursor to next text line down - if at bottom-most text line, move cursor to end of text block/text input It seems to me that since the current Linux behavior at the top-most and bottom-most lines is to do nothing, adding this new functionality would only benefit every user. Would this be a behavior that is controlled by the desktop environment? Would Gnome be interested in discussing this new functionality? Thanks for listening. Sincerely, Jason Simanek _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
