Re: metacity: removing alt-shift-up/down

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 11:40, Shmyrev wrote:
> Desktop devel list.
> > > Havoc, is there any chance of changing the metacity keybindings defaults
> > to remove alt-shift-up/down? Here's the bug:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129263
> >
> > This will allow people to properly use keyboard navigation in nautilus
> > 2.6. For instance, alt-down opens the folder, but alt-shift-down opens
> > it and closes the current folder.
> >
> > Yes, we know that this will piss off a small number of people and that
> > those people will complain loudly. That's the case with all window
> > manager changes. But the average user does not care about that stuff.
> 
> Have anyone think about keyboard layout switch? Alt-Shift is one of default 
> XFree layout switchers, many users use it even in Windows.

Exactly what keyboard combination do you mean? Just Alt-Shift?

If you are now able to use Alt-Shift-Up/Down with metacity to change
workspaces then you should be able to use Alt-Shift-Up/Down in future to
navigate folders in Nautilus.

>  Do you suppose 
> that peoples move their most used key combination to switch layout to Shift_l 
> + Shift R, to start navigating in Nautilus?
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