On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 17:22, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > Regarding the presence of both the button and the menu item, I thought > it was generally considered bad to have operations in the main window > that can only be achieved through buttons and not through the menus. > So even if we added (working) shortcuts to Find Now and Clear, we should > still have the corresponding menu items, shouldn't we?
Interesting question... it's a fairly unusual situation to have 'action'-type controls in a top level window outside a toolbar, so it's pretty much a judgement call as to whether that guideline really applies to those controls. Evo doesn't have a "Go" menu that lists all the locations in the shortcut bar, for example, but it probably would if you rigorously applied the same guideline. Personally I think it's not unreasonable to leave it off the menus if the corresponding control is always visible and has a mnemonic. Or if it does go in the menus as well, I don't think there's a compelling need to provide a shortcut for it too. I'd guess the sort of person who's likely to discover and use Ctrl-Shift-B is just as likely to discover and use Alt-C in the main window. But that's all just unsubstantiated opinion :) > > Or if Ctrl-Shift-B is just the standard emacs shortcut for clearing text > > or something, it should be part of the desktop-wide emacs keybinding > > scheme and work in all text fields, rather than appearing as a special > > menu item. > > The "Clear" menu item / button also updates the view, it doesn't just > clear the contents of the entry. D'oh, of course it does. Obviously wouldn't belong in the keybinding theme then. :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
