Chee Bin HOH wrote:
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 10:07, John R Lenton wrote:However, to get rid of the search window, instead of a commonly accepted Esc key being hit, a user has to use the Alt+C button. In terms of keyboard usability, maybe we should allow the Esc button to be utilised.
I tested will many windows apps, i found that <esc> close almost all dialog (small one) including filedialog.
I didnt test with macOSX's apps. I think we should implement "Esc should close dialog box, except XXX type of dialog bog" where XXX type of dialog is a type that really need user input.
To me, typing Alt-C is faster than ESC, ESC key is located upper left corner, where too far away from my fingers.
Alt C is locale specific, (access key that binded with _Cancel" for Malay it should be Alt+B, Alt+C might also conflicted with other accesskey.
So Alt-C should be much more keyboard usability, remember using arrow keys or Ctrl+(F, B, N, P) to move around an emacs buffer? Ctrl+(F, B, N, P) is a recommended way in Emacs too. On other hand, new user can not tell from the Find dialog GUI, by typing Esc can get rid of the Find dialog. A good GUI should be WYSIWYG.wow! you mean people are still using that? I thought everybody was searfhing for text with /text, repeating last search with ^G. Is there any reason for Edit -> Find / ^F to still be around?Agree, that is where HIG comes in, we should enforce Ctrl+G, Shift+Ctrl+C.