Re: [orca-list] Progress update on the "List of" dialogs

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Joanie,

Sounds good to me. I am all in favor of the alt+shift+navigation
letter system proposed below, and I have never used the "where am I"
commands in Gnome.


On 2/5/13, Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com> wrote:
> On 02/05/2013 06:44 AM, Hammer Attila wrote:
>
> > Basicaly, your concept with CTRL+ALT+Structural navigation letter
> > is full logical and easy to learning.
>
> Thanks. Something that would be equally easy and less conflict-prone
> would be Alt+Shift+Structural navigation letter. In fact, that was my
> first choice, and it nearly worked too. Why I liked it:
>
> * Orca is already using Alt+Shift+Arrows for table cell navigation
>   which is a type of structural navigation.
>
> * Alt+Shift+Letters does not conflict with any system bindings
>   (like the gnome-shell lock binding of Ctrl+Alt+L)
>
> * It doesn't conflict with any other Orca commands for the letters.
>
> * The only place it conflicts is with the numbers. In particular,
>   Alt + Shift + 1-6 are the commands for getting "Where am I
>   information for this bookmark relative to the current pointer
>   location".
>   http://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/commands_bookmarks.html
>
> As you will also see if you read those docs, the conflicting keybindings
> are not for the primary bookmark functionality like saving bookmarks or
> going to bookmarks. It's for (what I consider) a set of fairly esoteric,
> not often needed commands.
>
> So I'm going to ask a question and make a proposal:
>
> Question: Who amongst you actually uses the commands specific to
> getting "Where am I information for this bookmark relative to the
> current pointer location".
>
> Proposal:
>
> a. Let's unbind those Where Am I bookmark commands.
> b. Let's "steal" Alt+Shift+1-6 for the heading by level dialogs.
> c. Let's use Alt+Shift+structural navigation letter for the rest.
>    (including Alt+Shift+L for the list of lists)
> d. Let's use Alt+Shift+K for the list of links
>
> Thoughts?
> --joanie
>
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