On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Corey Burger wrote: > Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:58:38 -0800 > From: Corey Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Usability] Minor wording change to the HIG > > In > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/input-keyboard.html#standard-shortcuts > > It says: > > PageUp, Ctrl-PageUp, PageDown, Ctrl-PageDown Scroll selected view by > one page up/left/down/right
Not very clear is it? I think it could be clarified and be made a bit more specific, explaining the difference between how "Page Up" and "Ctrl+Page Up" behave. > However it makes not mention of a common usage of Ctrl+PageUp|Down, > which is switching tabs. Does that take priority over Ctrl+Tab? If so then why? I know Mozilla took an awful long time to implement Ctrl+Tab maybe it conflicts with an old school window manager? Before that I didn't think of using Ctrl+PageUp for navigating tabs. I always thought Ctrl+Tab was the more commonly used binding for switching between tabs and I hope you can see there is a certain logic to using the Tab key for switching tabs. Also I didn't think we* particularly encouraged Tabbed interfaces (but of course accepted they could be useful in limited circumstances if implemented carefully). > Did I miss something somewhere else or do we need to add another > section to the hig telling people which keys they should use for tab > switching? Maybe. :) Probably best to file a request against the HIG (please add me to the CC if you do) > Here is a current survey of apps > > Epip - C-pd|u and c-alt-pg|u > Gedit - c-a-pd|u > gnome-terminal - c-pd|u Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ * Maybe it was just me that didn't want Tabbed interfaces absolutely everywhere. The idea worked well for Opera but then people seemed to get a bit carried away and suggested it almost every application possible. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
