Re: [Fwd: Desktop User Guide Section 1.2.2 Window Shortcut Keys]

[Greg Knittl <gknittl sympatico ca>]

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Hi Calum,

Re confirming the action:
too broad: "press any key"
too narrow (but correct): "Enter key" (Space key does not confirm on
Gnome   2.22.3, but does confirm on 2.30)

The exact behaviour could actually be quite complicated and probably
affected by keyboard mappings. Probably has to be expressed in terms of
whatever Gnome passes to X (out of my technical depth here). It would
likely require a whole (sub)section to express it exactly and explain
the settings that can affect key behaviour and how the user can trace
them through various config files. I would have to dig into the source
code for that. I can't commit to that right now.

I think the docs would improve if they mentioned Esc to cancel and
talked about the Shift key. I think I ran into the Shift key behaviour
as I was experimenting and didn't understand what it was doing so I
would encourage the docs to cover this.

I'd be glad to draft revised wording if that helps.

thanks,

Calum Benson wrote:
> On 23 Aug 2010, at 02:35, Greg Knittl wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Playing with this a bit more, there are actually many keys on the
>> keyboard such as function keys, tab keys, super key etc that will have
>> no effect on Alt + F7 and Alt + F8 at least on my keyboard - Ubuntu 8.04
>> Gnome 2.22.3. On Ubuntu 10.04 NBR Gnome 2.30.0 (Configuration Editor
>> level) the function keys do terminate Alt + F7 and Alt + F8 but shift,
>> ctrl, super key do not terminate. Esc still cancels the move/resize.
> 
> The intended behaviour of the Move and Resize menu items was always that Space or Enter would confirm the action, and Esc would cancel it. I'd be loathe to document anything else, personally.
> 
> I also notice that this section doesn't mention the effect of Shift on the arrow keys while moving/resizing ...  perhaps it should? Holding Shift snaps the edge of the window being moved/resized to the nearest window edge in that direction, or to the edge of the desktop itself if no such window edge exists.  I'm sure somebody else can word that better :)
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 


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