Re: Standardization of Function Keys

[Aurélien Naldi <aurelien naldi gmail com>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 4:30 AM, Trans <transfire gmail com> wrote:
[...]
>> No it wouldn't. Not to mention that Ctrl+F5 already means "clear the
>> cache for all assets refreshed on this page, and then refresh".
>
> Sure it would. Everyone had to adjust to completely new way of
> navigating the desktop in the transition from Gnome 2 to Gnome 3. This
> is nothing compared to that. A few shortcuts that only very technical
> specialists know can easily be remapped. I've been programming for 25
> years and have never once used CTRL+F5 in any capacity that I can
> recollect. I'm absolutely sure no average user has any idea about it
> either. In fact, they probably would have a hard time even
> understanding what you were talking about.

Hi,

I am probably no "standard" user (who is this guy anyway?) but I've
been using both F5 and ctrl-F5 in web-browser on a regular basis, as
well as others F* shortcuts here and there.
For the record, F5 and ctrl-F5 are used in all browsers I know. I
fully agree that it is mostly used by web developers, but and I have
seen some webites encouraging the their user to use these shortcuts to
get an updated version. It is probably not the best way to do it, but
it does exist and I do not think that we should break this without a
very good reason.
F1 for help is also pretty much everywhere. I do not use it myself but
I've seen plenty of people who do...

[...]
> I think its important not to give preference to what you personally
> know and are used to versus what could be a general improvement for
> everyone.

I think it is also important not to dismiss what you do not use but
many others do ;)

Anyway, many "fancy" keyboards come with F* keys remapped to extra
shortcuts so these shortcuts may be forgotten someday...

Best!

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Aurélien Naldi