Re: [Evolution] Evolution Keyboard Navigation Specification

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 11:56 +0800, Nancy Cai wrote:
> hi.
>
>       I have finished the evolution keyboard navigation specification.
>
> You can visit the page at:
> http://go-evolution.org/Evolution_Keyboard_Navigation_Specification for
> details. 

Haven't been through it in detail, but a couple of things jump out
immediately:

- The HIG recommends against using Ctrl+Shift+[0-9] and Ctrl+Shift+[A-F]
for shortcuts that are active at the same time as an entry field (e.g.
the composer window), as these shortcuts are used to enter Unicode
characters.  Currently Evolution uses a few of these (I've just been
caught out by Ctrl+Shift+A myself...)

- Ctrl+Shift+W just feels counter-intuitive for creating a new window;
I'd normally expect Ctrl+W to be associated with closing a window, and
by extension, Ctrl+Shift+W to close all windows.

Frankly, I'd suggest that a lot of the things in the list aren't really
frequently-used enough to need keyboard shortcuts at all, which would
make it easier to be more HIG-compliant, but obviously I'm not in
possession of the user data that you guys hopefully are.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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