Re: [Usability] Ctl+W

[David Moles <david moles vykor com>]

On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 06:51, Calum Benson wrote:
> Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> 
> > Seriously? I've been skipping through this thread secure in the
> > knowledge that I thought I saw "Don't use these as keybindings:
> > they may not been used in this scheme, but they are expected by
> > emacs-key-binding users and should not be used for other things"
> > (with a list of bindings I use a lot, although I don't use emacs).
> 
> There is indeed a section in the draft UI Guidelines to that effect,
> which lists all the current emacs keybindings in common use in GNOME and
> suggests you don't use them for anything else while a text field has
> focus.  I included that because I was still hearing conflicting stories
> from the gtk team at that point about whether they would be switched off
> by default or not... still not sure I've heard the definitive answer!
> 
> > My ideal scenario would be something along the lines of a
> > dialogue for:
> > 
> >         Choose keybindings:
> > 
> >         Emacs style
> >         Windows style
> >         MacOS style
> >         CDE style
> 
> This might work for text-editing/navigation keybindings, but probably
> not much else.  When app developers add a shortcut key to their new app
> for a particular function, they can't be expected to have to pick one
> dynamically at runtime so as not to collide with whatever scheme the
> user currently employs.  If nothing else, think of the documentation
> nightmare :)

What about things like switching between Ctrl-, Alt-, and (on the Mac)
Cmd- as the primary menu hotkey? Netscape used to let you do that, IIRC.

--D