Re: [PATCH] Add Internet Explorer-like keybindings

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 8/1/05, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> On 8/1/05, Martin Wehner <martin wehner gmail com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 01:06 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > Sorry, but bug 305252 [1] is nearly unquotable, since it consists of
> > > very very long rants.
> >
> > Boy, what a rant. That has to be the longest comment in the history of
> > bugzilla.
> >
> > > The purpose of the patch should be obvious.
> > >
> > > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305252
> >
> > The patch looks fine. But (Shift-)F6 is taken for navigating in paned
> > windows, so we can't override it. (The browser with sidebar is a paned
> > window, it doesn't work in that configuration for example).
> > I'm fine with the addition of F5 for reload though, as it'll help people
> > used to Explorer or Konqi. But it's an UI change, so you'll have to get
> > it by the release team if you want to have it in 2.12.
> 
> UI change restrictions are mainly for the benefit of the docs and
> screenshooters. As long as this binding isn't documented, you can go
> ahead. If it is documented, please email the release-team and
> documentation team for their permission.

Murray would disagree, and has before.  (Though he didn't provide me
with any examples of why)  ;-)