RE: [Usability] Mac-Finder-like keyboard-navigation: Ctrl="and cl ose the current one"
- From: Murray Cumming Comneon com
- To: sinzui cox net, usability gnome org
- Subject: RE: [Usability] Mac-Finder-like keyboard-navigation: Ctrl="and cl ose the current one"
- Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 09:48:00 +0100
Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
murrayc usa net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: usability-admin gnome org
> [mailto:usability-admin gnome org] On Behalf Of Curtis C. Hovey
> Sent: Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2003 01:52
> To: Usability
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Mac-Finder-like keyboard-navigation:
> Ctrl="and close the current one"
>
>
> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 18:58, Kai Willadsen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 00:31, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > > 2. Use Ctrl -Double-click to open the folder and close
> the current
> > > one at the same time.
> > > (This is not yet implemented in Nautilus. Windows does
> this too,
> > > though it doesn't have spatial folder windows)
> >
> > How would this be work with single-click operation? Currently,
> > Ctrl-click is used to toggle selection and Shift-click extends the
> > selection. As far as I can tell, the "and close the current one"
> > behaviour just doesn't exist in Windows in single-click mode.
>
> 'Open folder in existing window' is a modal setting from
> Folder options under Windows. While I use this setting when
> I've used Windows, I don't care for it. I think the correct
> behavior is more like the Mac.
He is talking about "single-click operation", not "Open folder in existing
window". I don't know why, but I made the same mistake at first when reading
this.
> I don't think we will find a satisfactory solution with
> <meta>+left-click options; they're used up. My laptops don't
> have a middle-button, so I propose we explore the right-click.
If the Mac can do it, then I'm fairly sure that we can do it. I'm not giving
up yet, whether it means we use Ctrl or Shift.
> Ctrl-right-click and Shift-right-click appear to be
> available. If neither are appropriate to the key binding's
> scheme, would either of the existing left-click options work
> with a right click?
>
> I vaguely recall reading in _/The Human Interface/_ how the
> author thought the Mac should have had a three button mouse.
I always wanted 5 independently moving clickable pointers - one for each
finger.
> The thumb-button was for selecting and grabbing, the
> left-button was for activating, and the right button was for
> inspecting. I'd like to move the select options to another
> button (but I only have the right).
Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
murrayc usa net
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