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



> - 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 :)
 
I had no idea it was even bound to anything, and by the time I understood what it actually did, I had messed up my desktop something fierce. _Please_ use this as an excuse to remap it to something more useful :)
  
As for remapping Ctl-Alt-arrow, I have no real problem with it personally - the first thing I always do is to remap workspace switching to Ctl-arrow anyway, so I don't have to mess with more keys than necessary, for the single most used keybinding I have. But please do _not_ remove keybindings for workspace switching - using the workspace applet is a pain and removes much of the convenience of multiple workspaces if you force people to use it (and most people will never be determined enough to actively map switching to keybindings). As another poster said, multiple workspaces is a great, wonderful feature of Unix/Gnome desktops, and we should push it forward, not hide it away.
 
 
> - 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
> withthis goal, but the fact that it currently works like this seems
> verybroken, 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?
 
As workspace switching is a much-used and much-beloved feature, it really makes much more sense to remap Shift-doubleclick than Ctl-Alt-arrow. I don't really see what Shift-doubleclick even does, compared to Shift-clicking twice.
 
/Janne
 
Jan Morén
LUCS
http://lucs.lu.se




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