Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-26 Thread Federico Mena Quintero
On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 01:52 -0700, Alex Graveley wrote: Speaking of Emacs, one of my favorite features has always been when executing an M-x command that the minibar flashes the shortcut sequence you _could_ have used for the same task. I find that I learn the commands I use most often[1]

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-21 Thread Alex Graveley
Speaking of Emacs, one of my favorite features has always been when executing an M-x command that the minibar flashes the shortcut sequence you _could_ have used for the same task. I find that I learn the commands I use most often[1] this way. If I know the command it's because I've seen

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-20 Thread Matthew Thomas
On 19 Oct, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Bill Haneman wrote: Matthew said: In Windows 2000 and (I think) Windows XP, all access key underlines are hidden by default. http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/ hideunderlines.aspx This makes the interface less ugly, and possibly also

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-20 Thread Shaun McCance
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:49 -0200, Matthew Thomas wrote: On 19 Oct, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Bill Haneman wrote: Matthew said: In Windows 2000 and (I think) Windows XP, all access key underlines are hidden by default. http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-20 Thread Eric Larson
Hi, On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 08:49 -0200, Matthew Thomas wrote: On 19 Oct, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Bill Haneman wrote: Matthew said: In Windows 2000 and (I think) Windows XP, all access key underlines are hidden by default. http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Winship
Matthew Thomas wrote: On 19 Oct, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Bill Haneman wrote: Matthew said: In Windows 2000 and (I think) Windows XP, all access key underlines are hidden by default. http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/ hideunderlines.aspx This makes the interface less ugly,

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-20 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
Hi, On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 11:02 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: I had remembered where the keys were when I was in a rhythm, but not what they were. For the vast majority of the emacs shortcuts, I had to go look them up and learn them again, but for this one and a few others, I relearned them

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-20 Thread Chipzz
esc:s:x:y:g beat that :P On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Dan Winship wrote: From: Dan Winship [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working Matthew Thomas wrote: On 19 Oct, 2005, at 2:49 PM, Bill Haneman wrote: Matthew said: In Windows 2000 and (I think

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-19 Thread Bill Haneman
Matthew said: In Windows 2000 and (I think) Windows XP, all access key underlines are hidden by default. http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/ hideunderlines.aspx This makes the interface less ugly, and possibly also somewhat faster for people who aren't disabled (as it

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-19 Thread Alan McGinlay
I find that typing the access key is far faster than using the mouse but that depends on the task I'm doing at the time. On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:49:40 +0100 Bill Haneman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew said: In Windows 2000 and (I think) Windows XP, all access key underlines are hidden

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-18 Thread Wouter Bolsterlee
P� Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:47:45PM -0700, Alan skrev: On a related note, I've seen some issues with the accel key for dialogs ie: in a save dialog with 's' underlined in the word save should mean you can hit 's' and the dialog would act as if you'd hit the save button with mouse or

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-18 Thread Matthew Thomas
On 18 Oct, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote: ... P.S. I heard some other OS'es only show the shortcut keys for menus after hitting Alt, but since I don't have that other OS, I can't test to make sure. ... In Windows 2000 and (I think) Windows XP, all access key underlines are

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-10 Thread Alan
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 03:28:25PM +0200, Frank Niedermann wrote: Hi, It is possible to close some Gnome windows with the escape key (example: System / Preferences / Keyboard shortcuts) but it is not possible with some other windows (example: System / Preferences / Keyboard). Also the

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-10 Thread Calum Benson
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 15:28 +0200, Frank Niedermann wrote: It is possible to close some Gnome windows with the escape key (example: System / Preferences / Keyboard shortcuts) but it is not possible with some other windows (example: System / Preferences / Keyboard). The HIG is pretty clear

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-10 Thread Matthew Thomas
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 15:53 +0100, Calum Benson wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 15:28 +0200, Frank Niedermann wrote: It is possible to close some Gnome windows with the escape key (example: System / Preferences / Keyboard shortcuts) but it is not possible with some other windows (example:

Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

2005-10-10 Thread Matthew Thomas
On 10 Oct, 2005, at 3:36 PM, Calum Benson wrote: On 10 Oct 2005, at 18:16, Matthew Thomas wrote: Unfortunately, GNOME has yet to make a clear distinction between dialogs and windows, and this causes subconscious confusion about how they work. Yes, that's certainly still an issue too,