Il Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:41:42 +0000, Calum Benson ha scritto: > > On 3 Mar 2006, at 14:29, Roberto Piscitello wrote: > >> So I think these are the more intuitive, convenient and coherent >> combinations: >> >> * Alt-Left/Right: switch to the previous/following tab > > That has exactly the same problem as our current documented shortcut > (Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn) though-- namely that Alt-left/right is already used > by another common control (in this case, text fields, to move the > cursor a word at a time). So if one of those controls on a tab has > focus, you can't change tabs any more. In fact, this is probably > more likely to bite you than our current shortcut, as it's really > only list/combo controls that consume Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn for themselves. To move a word at a time you use Ctrl-Left/Rigth. However Alt-Left/Rigth are already used too, but to move in the navigation history (Ephy and FF use Alt-Left as a shortcut for the Back toolbar button). See table 10.9 in the HIG. IMHO this was a sad choice: in the HIG, they're the only deviation from the rule "Alt for the WM, Ctrl for apps". Probably I'll file a bug about that, both because of the afore mentioned reason and because they could be used for other and more logic purposes.
>> * Alt-1/2/...: switch to the N-th tab (as already is) > > FWIW, this isn't a standard feature of the GtkNotebook control > (unless it's been added recently)... if you'd like it to be, you > probably ought to comment in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi? > id=87764 or something :) gedit and epiphany do this way, but there's no mention in the HIG about these shortcuts. So you are perfectly right :-) BTW, thanks for the link. >> PS: IMHO the HIG should recommend something like this: >> Reserved for the WM and tabs handling(*): >> Alt-[Ctrl]-[Shift]-{0-9,anything but A-Z} >> Reserved for label shortcuts (the ones with an underscore): >> Alt-{A-Z} >> Reserved for applications shortcuts: >> Ctrl-[Shift]-{any key} > > Hmm, perhaps, although people already complain that if you follow the > HIG to the letter there are barely any shortcuts left to use :) > Admittedly what you're suggesting is mostly just a summary of > existing guidelines though (apart from the tabs part), so feel free > to file a bug and we'll consider it as we're work on the next revision. Nice to see some activity in this field. I think it's important good shortcuts are chosen, else they are useless or even counterproductive. I'm looking at bugzilla to see what happens and file bugs/comments. Thanks, robepisc _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
