Shaun McCance wrote: >> 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.) >> > > That's eight keyboard shortcuts being taken away > from applications. One of those uses Ctrl, which > we try very hard to let applications use. You'll > notice nearly all of our current global keyboard > shortcuts use Alt. > I think a lot of users would benefit from Alans proposal (and I guess Alt+F1 shoudl be added too for the main menu?). I wonder if it is very important that those keybindings are beeing taken away? Since I do not know Gnome yet I would like you to ask you a bit more in detail:
- With Super do you mean what I call "windows keys"? - What kind of applications actually use Super? - Are those applications perhaps mainly programming IDE/editors? - Can an application override the global binding of super? I can see the need for super in certain applications (like Emacs) but in the case of MS Windows I use the windows keys inside Emacs as Emacs-meta. Outside the windows keys have their normal bindings. That arrangement is quite good for me since inside Emacs I use meta very often (of course). What I am trying to say is that for a user with special needs such arrangement might be good enough. I got some more ideas about how to solve this, but I will wait until I have got some respons on this. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
