On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Calum Benson wrote: > 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
Excellent, good to know we have the underlying infrastructure to do this cleanly but why leave it to the distributions? (I need to figure out where exactly to patch but ...) The windows keybindings are fairly well known and I do not think there would be much/any harm having the enabled by default, or at least provide some way to enable this set of keybindings rather than expect every user to configure each of them individually. Here's a list of the keybindings (and I refer to the Windows key the more generic "Super" key) Super to open up the main menu*, also Ctrl+Esc Super+E to open the File Manager Super+M to Minimize All, Show Desktop Super+M+Shift to Maximize All Super+F Search/Find tool I think there may have been additional keybindings added in since Windows XP. Super+U Utilities manager, a program to turn on accessibility software like the Mangifier, Narrator (text to speech) or on screen keyboard. Super+L to Lock Workstation (I'm finding it mildly annoying since I have hit this accidentally a couple of times. It is still nowhere near as annoying as the stupid keybinding to switch keyboard layouts since it took me years to discover what was causing that bit of evil.) * Not actually the main menu but the Applications menu, you know what I mean. Do we/I need to file another bug to track this or is there a suitable existing report which covers it? -- Alan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
