Re: [Usability] Application-type keyboard shortcuts



On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 13:09 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2004, Shaun McCance wrote:
> 
> > Date: 08 Sep 2004 18:38:35 -0500
> > From: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
> > To: Tommi Komulainen <tommi komulainen iki fi>
> > Cc: Usability <usability gnome org>
> > Subject: Re: [Usability] Application-type keyboard shortcuts
> >
> > 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 in either the HIG being out of date or the application.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 :)
> 
> Which software are you talking about specifically?

Evolution, Pan, Straw, Liferea, Blam for starters.  All have very much
in common, except the shortcuts :)


> I strongly suspect your list includes non-GUI mail applications which I
> think it is fair to say goes beyond the scope of Gnome.

No non-GUI applications involved, I consciously tried to ignore them.
And in fact, they aren't the problem, both slrn and mutt let you change
keyboard shortcuts... ;)


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Tommi Komulainen                                 tommi komulainen iki fi
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