On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 19:28, Martin Waitz wrote: > hi :) > > i greatly appreciate the improved keyboard navigation in gnome2. > > however i think there is still room for improvements: > > ctrl-U doesn't clear the line anymore in text widgets. I never knew it did :-) You appear to be right. My first guess would be that ctrl+U was reserved for something else, but I'm not sure. You may want to file a bug against GTK about it... > in message boxes, the first letter of the buttons is used as an > shortcut, for example Alt-Y will activate y and Alt-N will > activate no. > why do i have to press alt here? > it would be a lot easier to simply press y or n. > one could bind both Alt-Letter and Letter-only to the button. > if some widget that needs keyboard input by itself is focused, > it should of course get those -- i don't want a dialog to close > while typing text. > but in the absence of a focused text input field, pressing > the alt key is simply not needed. While that's true and it might make life marginally easier for some users, in general I think it would only add confusion. > similar for many 'simple' applications: > why do i have to press Control for _every_ keyboard command, > even when the not-control keys do nothing? > one could of course say: control keys work everywhere! > everything else would be inconsistent. > but i don't understand why some applications have to use broken > keyboard commands just because others do, too... If both `c' and ctrl+c were "copy", for a particular application, that might be ok in that people unfamiliar with it would get the desired action when they hit ctrl+c. However adding that inconsistancy would, for most uesers I supsect, just get in the way of getting things done. As for the first question, though, do file a bug report. The worst that will happen is it'll be closed as WONTFIX. --Ben > > comments? > perhaps i'm just missing some options... > > > -- > CU, / Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, Germany > Martin Waitz // [Tali on IRCnet] [tali.home.pages.de] _________ > ______________/// - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - /// > dies ist eine manuell generierte mail, sie beinhaltet // > tippfehler und ist auch ohne grossbuchstaben gueltig. / > - > Wer bereit ist, grundlegende Freiheiten aufzugeben, um sich > kurzfristige Sicherheit zu verschaffen, der hat weder Freiheit > noch Sicherheit verdient. > Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790
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