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

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey,

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 15:34, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > 
> > 	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.
> 
> There is no equivalent of the workspace switcher panel applet on Windows,
> but we do have that in GNOME.

	Just to recap - I'm saying that (some?) GNOME users use workspaces as a
better way of organizing your windows. So, assuming this is the usage
model, I see the workspace switching key binding being similar in
function as Alt-Tab.

	In the same way, I see the workspace switcher applet's parallel as
being the tasklist.

	(I'm probably not explaining myself well here)

	My argument is that if Windows' users prefer using Alt-Tab to the
tasklist, then I would imagine that those same users would prefer to use
the keybinding for workspace switching than the workspace switcher
applet. They are similar functions.

> > 	Using Shift-Alt-Down for Nautilus sounds good to me :-)
> 
> See my latest reply to that bugzilla thread, 

	i.e. that you want to use Control as the modifier to mean "and close
the other one" everywhere. That's a fair point, but I neither see why it
is hugely significant nor why you couldn't make Shift that modifier (or
is Shift-DoubleClick used for something else?)

Cheers,
Mark.