It's indeed an opinion, but my one matches Merlijn's (Merlijn, I'd appreciate if you opened a bug according to Daniel's suggestion (does it really belong to mutter, rather than some more core wayland component?)).
In most software, Ctrl+Arrow walk the cursor faster than the modifier- less Arrow key. I might press and hold the arrow key, and then realize it's going to take a bit too long and want make it faster. It's an obvious an intuitive reaction to press Ctrl as well, or the other way around, to release Ctrl but leave the Arrow pressed when I'm about to reach my destination and want to slow down. This is pretty similar to how typically holding the Shift speeds up walking in many games - you won't find a game where you have to stop walking for a sec do to this. The new behavior is not just counterintuitive, but if one gets used to it then also still slower than the old one. Even when someone is fully used to this new behavior, having to release the Arrow and press it again later is a loss of time, partially because of the speed of our fingers, and partially beucase the repetition delay between the first and second emitted keystroke has to elapse again. This is the kind of usability issue that can easily frequently increase the user's frustration level, by a tiny little bit every time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1720213 Title: Word moving with left-arrow-ctrl broken in wayland Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Opinion Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: Ubuntu 17.10, Wayland session. In the terminal, the keycombination `ctrl-left-arrow` and `ctrl-right- arrow` moves the cursor one word to the left and to the right. In Xorg this works, no matter which key you press first (ctrl or arrow). In wayland, you have to press the ctrl key first, otherwise, the cursor will not move. # How to reproduce: type some words in gnome terminal press `left-arrow` key, wait for the cursor to move and, and press `ctrl`. # What happens The cursor first moves one character per "tick", and stops immediately when you press `ctrl`. # What should happen The cursor first moves one character per "tick", and starts moving one word per "tick" when you press `ctrl`. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1720213/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
