On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 17:11 +0200, Steve Frécinaux wrote: > Lennart Borgman wrote: > > Sven Herzberg wrote: > >> On So, 2006-08-20 at 16:00 +0200, Lennart Borgman wrote: > >> > >>> I tried Control-Esc and the Windows keys to access the start menu, but > >>> none of them worked. I would really appreciate if they do. Is there any > >>> reason that they should not work the same way as on MS Windows? Would > >>> not that attract MS Windows users? > >>> > >> Try Alt-F1. Alt is the modifier we often use for global keybindings. > >> Maybe there's more explanations given in the Gnome HIG. > >> > > Thanks Sven. I have later got that information but it was not there when > > I needed it. > > > > What I am looking for is the answer to the questions above. What are the > > opinion here about those questions? Why not try to welcome MS Windows > > users in this area? > > Alt+Escape is already used for something else. IMHO, Ctrl+Escape > wouldn't make sense wrt the current way we define shortcuts. And you are > likely to run into http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165343 if > you try to use the super (windows) key (and it's rather annoying to have > the menu popping everytime just because you hit the super key by accident) > > But appart from that, nothing is keeping you from defining your own > keybindings as you like them ;-)
There's also a recent patch that will let you define multiple keybindings for the same function, so that distros who are so inclined can set both Alt+F1 and Ctrl-Esc to pop up the menu and keep everyone happy. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164831 Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
