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

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 17:47, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:

Most of my reply is in the bug report, but I thought I'd answer this
part here :)

> There is (will be) no Shift-Alt-Doublelclick. I am suggesting
> Ctrl="and close the current one, meaning Ctrl-Doubelick to "open and
> close the current one", and you are suggesting Shift-Doubleclick instead.

No, I was suggesting Shift-Alt-[arrow or doubleclick] whenever you
wanted to close the window behind you.  Which is a little non-orthogonal
in that Alt-doubleclick isn't required to open a folder, whereas
Alt-arrow is, but that still sounds less important to me than stealing
what are probably about the most frequently used metacity shortcuts.

If it turned out that Shift-Alt was too cumbersome a shortcut to be used
regularly, then our whole default interaction model is probably broken
somewhere, because you shouldn't have to use keyboard modifiers
regularly :)  (Or indeed at all, there should be a menu-driven
equivalent somewhere).

Anyway, I'm mellowing since I last replied to the bug report, I guess I
could live with metacity switching from Ctrl-Alt-arrow to
Shift-Alt-arrow for 'switch desktop' and losing its default 'move window
to adjacent workspace' shortcuts, if need be.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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