RE: [Usability] Mac-Finder-like keyboard-navigation: Ctrl="and cl ose the current one"

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > I don't think many people even know about the metacity keybinding, 
> > though those users might be very vocal. I think that the Nautilus 
> > feature will be far more useful, and used, by future GNOME 
> users, just 
> > as it is on the Mac.
> 
> Hmm.  I'm not too sure about this.  Just because Windows/Mac 
> don't have virtual desktops doesn't mean normal users won't 
> use them.  To be honest, when I show that feature to 
> Windows/Mac users, they generally go, "Wow!"  Instead of 
> hiding a feature other platforms don't have, in this case, 
> I'd rather see us *advertising* the feature the other 
> platforms don't have.

Workspaces are a great feature. But you don't need this keybinding to use
them.

> > It's not such a great hardship to use the panel workspace 
> switcher to 
> > switch to another workspace.
> 
> It is if you don't/can't use a mouse, yes?

Yes, we need to find some solution for that. Possible solutios, suggested by
Alex, are
- Use Shift-Alt-Arrow to do what Ctrl-Alt-Arrow does now, and let people use
the window's WM menu to do what Shift-Alt-Arrow does:
- Use a *-number keybinding (which some people do already)

Murray Cumming
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