On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Calum Benson
<Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 22:35 +0200, Natan Yellin wrote:
> I agree, but lets aim for default shortcuts that people already
> recognize from other applications. Ctrl-PgUp/Down is the de facto
> standard.
Depends which 'people' you're talking about, of course :) In GNOME, Ctrl
+Alt+PgUp/PgDn is really the current standard, as that's the only
keybinding that works in all situations (because some focused controls
in tabbed dialogs will eat Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn).
We're going to have some confused users no matter.
Most GNOME users (both potential users and current users) have used Firefox at some point. Even if they're accustomed to Ctrl+Alt+PgUp, they'll be able to figure out that the shortcut is Ctrl+PgUp when Ctrl+Alt+PgUp does't work. On the other hand, if we use Ctrl+Alt+PgUp, a large group of people who are only used to Ctrl+PgUp wont succeed in figuring out the keyboard shortcut.
And Mac users will likely be more familiar with Cmd+Shift+[ and Cmd
+Shift+] (aka Cmd+{ and Cmd+}, depending on keyboard layout), as used in
the likes of Safari and Terminal.app.
I'm not sure about that. I was a Mac user for two years and I still learned to use Ctrl+PgUp because of Firefox.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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