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

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

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

> Here's where we decide that ctrl-alt-arrow would be better than
> shift-alt-arrow for this feature
> http://lists.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2003-November/msg00056.html

This is where I disagree :)  Rationale summarised from the bug report...

- Shift-Alt-arrow is more in keeping with the HIG's (and other
desktops') definition of what "Shift" is supposed to do-- to "extend (or
reverse) the meaning of an existing shortcut.  Since Alt-arrow opens a
folder in a new window, Shift-Alt-arrow is the perfect candidate for
opening the folder and additionally closing the old one behind it.

- Shift-Alt-arrow is currently bound to (what I'm guessing is) a much
less commonly-used feature of metacity... I bet most of you probably
don't even know what, without trying it :)

- The main argument against Shift-Alt-arrow seems to be "we want the
same modifier to mean 'close behind us' when double-clicking too, but
right now shift-doubleclick changes the selection".  I fully agree with
this goal, but the fact that it currently works like this seems very
broken, and should be irrelevant anyway.  IMHO Shift+doubleclick should
open all the currently-selected files without changing any selection, as
it does on Windows and Mac; what it does now seems to serve no useful
purpose.  But even if we decide it shouldn't do that, surely
Shift-Alt-doubleclick could be handled differently from
Shift-doubleclick anyway?

Cheeri,
Calum.

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