On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Thilo Pfennig wrote: > Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:39:11 +0200 > From: Thilo Pfennig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Usability] changing view with key strokes. > > I just cam across the fact that the shortcuts for inreasing and > decreasing the view of a page are different in Evolution and Epiphany. > Maybe in more applications? > > > Evolution: > Strg+8, Strg+9 > > Epiphany,Evince,gnome-terminal, Abiword (no hint in menu): > Strg+-, Strg++
I figure Strg must be (German?) for Ctrl/Control (sorry this is something I really should know already.) In applications like Abiword and OpenOffice the distinction between Zooming and Increasing Font Size matters so I feel I should point out that some of these application Zoom the View and others increase their text size (something the Opera Web Browser has done for years and is long overdue to be emulated). And of course in some applications this distinction is irrelevant. Any other inconsistencies sound like applications not following the HIG yet ... > Openoffice.org: > no keystrokes? ... or deciding this wasn't something appropriate for their application but perhaps we can encourage them to reconsider. > In gedit the text size can only be controlled via "settings". I don?t > know why, because I think gedit often gets used as a text viewer. Having standard Zoom in and Zoom Out in Gedit would be interesting but they probably decided this did not deserve a menu item as it was not a setting that should need to get changed very often (and gedit follows your System font settings). Even if the Gedit developers decide it is not a good idea to have Zoom menu items it might be nice if Gedit could find a way to make something happen when users like yourself hit Control + and Control - and expect something to happen. If you suggest this to them please let us know if they are willing to consider the suggestion. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
