On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 21:14 +0100, Raphael Slinckx wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:46 -0500, Adam Hooper wrote: > > > > > > This has at least one advantages over keywords, immediate > > > copy/paste/open. It's easy to configure (just provide a 'type your > > > shortcut here' style of config) > > > > You mean "copy/search-for-the-current-URL-via-Google" because you bound > > Google to Ctrl-V? > > > > No i mean, in a menu you have shortcuts to access a particular item > "_File/_Quit". > > The url bar has a dropdown 'menu' proposing the different smart > bookmarks available. Why shouldn't these available smart bookmarks have > a keyboard shortcut ? > > if i know google is ctrl-g, i focus the url bar, type "foobar" hit > ctrl-g and do a google search for "foobar" and the gtk completion popup > hasn't even the time to show up. There's just one (huge) problem with that: Menu shortcuts aren't activated with the "Ctrl" key. > * Discoverability Nope, it acts like nothing else on the desktop. Let's say I bind Google to "Ctrl-V". What will happen when I press "Ctrl-V"? I'm not sure, and I'm a hacker: imagine how confused the average Joe will be. It's not intuitive at all. > * Copy a search term from somewhere paste it in the urlbar, and of > course because of the gtk bug the drop down won't appear, so you have to > delete one char, then rewrite it and finally choose the engine, if you > know the shortcut, no more annoyance like that. That's a separate (solvable) issue, so it shouldn't influence anybody's decision on this matter. I'm not denying that keyboard shortcuts could make a good extension: I'm just arguing they shouldn't be in core. -- Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>
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