Hi Christian,
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Von: Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Icon view navigation
Datum: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 11:16:25 +0200
Dear usability crew,
in an effort to fix bug 9930 [1], which complains that when pressing
right in the last icon column, the selection doesn't move to the next
row, first column, I've noticed that providing a good icon keynav isn't
trivial. Some observations/questions:
* Users (including me) indeed tend to use the right/left key as "give me
next/prev. icon", where the list is read zig-zag, i.e. the nth row, last
icon preceeds the n+1th row, first icon
* When you have the first column/row focused and press left, would you
expect to be taken to the first row, last column? What about the last
icon in the view and the right key?
* Should the selection "wrap"? We currently select everything in the
matrix between and including the start icon of the selection and the
msot recently selected item, i.e. we have a selection pane, as if you
selected everything in between with the rubberband.
The attached patch introduces the behavior described in the first two *.
Maybe an usability tester could point out other observations?
[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99330
Sorry, I've sent the mail to the wrong list.
I would neither wrap selection nor the cursor. If you edit a text you don't want
to wrap. I personally sometimes don't use 'Home' and 'End' keys, but just press
cursor up/down until it beeps because it reached the start or end of something.
Stefan
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