> Task switching by alt-tab seems pretty quick to me. Thinking about and > finding a different key to get Journal when you want it seems harder > than tabbing past it when you don't.
I agree about "seems harder" when one has to switch from using the keyboard to using the pointer. But to me using the Journal key is *not* "harder" than using alt-tab. I myself don't do any "hard thinking" about how to get to another screen. If I want to go to *system facilities*, I use dedicated keys to call them up; if I want to interact with "where I'm doing my work", I use alt-tab to reach those screens. > My basic view is that the frame, dedicated keys and alt-tabbing are all > designed to give the same sort of functionality that we have in > multi-window systems of easily cutting and pasting between activities, > rolling through the running activities, and starting new ones when > needed. As such, I think that the more capability that's exposed with > alt-tabbing the better. My view is that alt-tabbing should be restricted to Activities. I'm not familiar with the MacOS finder - but I prefer to maintain a mental distinction between going to: "what I am working with", and going to: "the system". When I use alt-tab for the former (which I do often), I *don't* want my progress cluttered up with system data. I use the latter much more rarely (e.g., to launch an Activity), and am willing to then use keys other than alt-tab. mikus _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
