On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Calum Benson wrote: > Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 12:24:21 +0000 > From: Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Joachim Noreiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Gnome usability <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Usability] keyboard shortcut for Find Previous > > > On 24 Nov 2005, at 12:44, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > > > > Adding SHIFT to reverse the order of cycling through > > items is already used for ALT-TAB window switching -- > > so how about CTRL-SHIFT-G for 'Find Previous'? > > Makes sense to me... not sure why it's not there already. Can you > file a HIG bug about it so we don't forget?
I fear this approaches too many keybindings territory and will cause problems when other programs want to use Ctrl+G for things like group. It might better if there was some kind of caveat included to make it clear that Ctrl+F should be the primary way to get at Find (Search) and all others are optional extras which applications have the descretion to drop in favour of more important functionality. Mozilla Composer for example uses only one menu item with the shortcut Ctrl+F and then the rest is taken care of in the Find and Replace dialog. Given a busy interface it seems like a good idea to have only the one dialog for both Find and Replace, whereas an application like Gedit can better afford to have various menu items for search. - Alan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
