Re: [Usability] newbie suggestions ...

[Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>]

Christian Rose wrote:

> Alan wrote:
>
> > I'd like to add the keybindings
> > Ctrl+A  Select All
> I guess the reason that Ctrl+A is not included is that it usually
> conflicts with the "Go to the beginning of the line" Emacs shortcut, and
> GTK+ fields also use Emacs shortcuts. I don't know if Emacs shortcuts
> will be enabled by default in GNOME2 though, 
aagh! emacs keybindings by default how scary is that.  useful maybe but 
please not on by default.  i suppose i will have to just give up and  
C-x, C-c
(as far as usability goes it was not obvious C == Ctrl or even Control, 
but people were willing to help me learn vim so thats what i learnt)

> or if there is a clever way
> of allowing both these uses of the shortcut without conflict.
>
> > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/keyboard.html#shortcuts
> > I use gnome on (Solaris?BSD?)Sparc (sometimes) and the command key is
> > Alt not Ctrl.
> > Same goes for BeOS, and then there is the Mac ... even though they dont
> > run Gnome its good to be portable.
>
> I suspect the big reason why Alt is a bad choice for command keys is
> that it usually collides with "underlined character" shortcuts in the
> interface, and there are (and should be) many of those. Also, Ctrl as
> command key has the benefit of being compatible with the largest
> desktop, Windows.
That reason for not using Alt is already mentioned on the page i linked 
to .