Re: [Evolution] Evolution Keyboard Navigation Specification

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 14:12 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> 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...)
Calum, we recently fixed this in the composer, so that unicode
characters can be entered.
> - 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.
Calum, we removed shortcut keys for lot of item and which aren't really
used frequently and removed Control+Alt combinations completely from
evolution. But in the main window, to get away from Control+Shift [a-f]
is bit difficult and it is continuing. 

-Srini
> Cheeri,
> Calum.