Re: [Usability] Application-type keyboard shortcuts

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 13:13, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 08:19 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 11:15 +0300, Aschwin van der Woude wrote:
> > > 
> > > It would be nice if such applications agree on a set of keyboard-
> > > shortcuts. Would the HIG perhaps be a place to define keyboard-shortcuts
> > > for different types of applications?
> > 
> > It actually does this already [1]. In the view section are shortcut keys
> > that applications should be using for zooming and others.
> > 
> > If an application isn't following these guidelines it's probably a bug
> > in either the HIG being out of date or the application.
> 
> I for one would really like it if mail/news/rss readers could all agree
> on a single set of shortcuts...  I can never remember which of 'n',
> 'Ctrl+N', '.', ']' jumps to next unread message and such :)

And whether it's 'M' or 'Ctrl+K' to mark a message read. :-\

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Shaun