Re: [Usability] new tab shortcut is different in gnome-terminal and

["Jason (spot) Brower" <encompass gmail com>]

I like the shift function.  Why should we go and change it... think of where your hands are... they don't have to move as much in "ctrl-Shift" world as they do in alt.  Additionally you should think about laptops... and international keyboards... I only have one alt but to ctrl's and shift's.  And the function key on my keyboard from my laptop is on my left and crowds the alt and windows key.
I say stay with ctrl shift.   It's the best alternative we have.  And I also think you would get quite the uproar changing all the standard console keys too.  So many applications in the terminal would have to change.
Just my two cents.
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Jason Brower

On 11/4/06, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com> wrote:

On Nov 2, 2006, at 7:43 PM, Carlos Eduardo Rodrigues Diógenes wrote:
> ...
> I note that gnome-teminal uses ctrl + T, while epiphny uses ctrl + t to
> create a new tab. These shortcut keys wouldn't have to be equal?
> ...

The keyboard combinations used by graphical applications in Windows and
Gnome, such as Ctrl+T, clash with longstanding keyboard combos used by
many terminal applications for editing commands.

Combination  Terminal                              Gnome

Ctrl+W       delete to beginning of previous word  close window/tab
Ctrl+T       transpose previous two characters     new tab
Ctrl+A       go to beginning of line               select all
Ctrl+C       break                                 copy

So because many people using gnome-terminal will expect Ctrl+W to
delete, rather than to close the window, gnome-terminal has to use
Shift+Ctrl+W where other applications use Ctrl+W. The same applies to
Ctrl+T, Ctrl+C, and to other combos for internal consistency.

Mac OS X avoids this problem by using Ctrl+letter for terminal editing
commands, and Command+something for normal commands. And GNUstep avoids
the problem by using Ctrl+letter for terminal editing commands, and
Alt+letter for normal commands.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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