Re: Ctrl+Enter

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hi Marco,

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:

> > How often does it happen that you press Ctrl+L, begin typing a URL, and
> > realise you actually don't want to replace the currently active page?

> Does it happen? I never noticed it in my usage. I tend to consider it an
> edge case, but I could be very well wrong.

Speaking just for myself, I know it happens to me quite frequently 
(like, once a day or so). On IRC, mpt said he can't live without 
Ctrl+Enter. That's all the usage data I've got. :)

> Hidden keybindings are both a mainteinance problem (they easily get 
> broken without being reported) and an interface one (if the 
> functionality is necessary why shouldnt it be available in a 
> discoverable way?).

That's a very good point, and the reason that I proposed to overload the 
'Go' button with a dropdown that allows the user to select '...in New 
[background] Tab'.

> call) as long as we do it consciously (i.e. we recognize it's a work
> around and we think it's worth paying the small mainteinance cost for
> it).

Since I don't contribute any code, I guess it's up to Christian and the 
other coders to decide about this.

regards,

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