On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:37:39PM +0100, Thilo Pfennig wrote: > I have found that opening a new tab is often different: > > * Epiphany: Ctrl+T > * Gedit: Ctrl+N (new document) > * Gnome-Terminal: SHIFT+Ctrl+T > > I think this is really bad. I can understand we have different history but I > really think this is the same action and so should have the same keyboard > shortcut. What do you think? Maybe we even have more shortcuts for new tabs > in GNOME?
I agree that having varying shortcuts for the same (or very similar) things is unfortunate. But for Gedit the action is New document, Ctrl-N being standard for it. One could argue that opening a tab is just a side efect. For the Terminal: I don't even know what might be bound to Ctrl-T, but it would be problematic to ignore console key bindings. Well, all those shell tools could benefit from a usability workover ... flying pigs and all that :) -- Thorsten Wilms Thorwil's Creature Illustrations: http://www.printfection.com/thorwil _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
