Re: [Usability] Mac-Finder-like keyboard-navigation: Ctrl="and close the current one"

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Murray,

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 14:31, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:

> *** Why the downside is not important:
> 
> 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.
> 
> It's not such a great hardship to use the panel workspace switcher to switch
> to another workspace.
> 
> Please see below before jumping in with "this other keybinding would be
> better". We've considered the alternatives.

	Personally, this keybinding is probably the one keybinding I use most
... but obviously you don't want to make decisions based on a single
person's preference.

	I think its fair to guess that most users who learn to use workspaces
use them as a way of organizing their windows so that they find it easy
to quickly jump to a specific window instead of trying to find the
window they want amongst the jumble of windows you typically have
without using workspaces.

	Given that, and the fact that Alt-Tab is a very widely used key binding
on Windows, my guess is that a significant number of users do use the
keybinding. But sure, real data would be nice.

	I guess it boils down to which group's "finger memory" do we want to
maintain? The current GNOME users who have learned to use the keybinding
for workspace switching or OSX converts who are used to using it
regularly in the file manager? I can't see how why we would think the
former group is larger/more important ..

	Using Shift-Alt-Down for Nautilus sounds good to me :-)

Cheers,
Mark.