begin quote On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 14:21:59 +0000 Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 15:45, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote: > > > My hunch is that most people who are going to use a file manager are > likely to be using it with a mouse[1] (since keyboard-based file > management is often easier in a terminal, for those who know how), I might add here that the inclusion of a commander- style filemanager (gnome-commander) this is reverse. Filemanagement with such handlers are more prone to use the keyboard than the mouse, Which is why the dual-pane interface in them works "really well" . > whereas most people who switch workspaces are likely to do so with the > keyboard (since switching with the mouse requires a pretty large and > intrusive gesture, by default). That might suggest we should reserve > the more optimal keyboard shortcuts for workspace switching, but with > no knowledge of the proportions of our overall user population who use > file managers and workspace switchers at all, even that's just > guesswork :/ True here, but this is one area where Gnome overall must improve. There is very little in gnome to tell a user that ctrl+alt+left/right/up/down will change workspace. And its not an intuitive command to "try". (but this is digressing from the list's purpouse ) Spider, Armchair everything -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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