Re: [Usability] changing view with key strokes.

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:41:24 +0100
> From: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
> To: Samuel Abels <newsgroups debain org>
> Cc: Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>, usability gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Usability] changing view with key strokes.
>
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 20:53 +0200, Samuel Abels wrote:
> > On Do, 2005-07-21 at 19:45 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > Does the Totem Movie Player use the standard keybindings and stock items
> > > for Zoom In, Zoom Out and Zoom Normal?
> >
> > It uses "R" and "T", which is IMO a bit odd. C^+ and C^- seems to be
> > unused.
> >
> > >   I remember seeing Totem used
> > > something unusual like "Zoom 2:1" but I have only have quite an old
> > > version of Totem for reference.
> >
> > That is also still there. As a sidenode, why is there no "stretch to
> > screen size" or similar?
>
> Is this a usability report for Totem? I don't think I asked for one...

Totem is the default Media player in Gnome you never need to ask.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
;)

Your comment reads as if you do not welcome user feedback.  Most
developers at least pretend they like getting feedback and politely
deflect it by asking for patches if they don't particularly like the
ideas.

I was suprised you choose not to mention Totem yourself in your previous
message.  The thread was about standard Zoom keys and you are the creator
of Totem so it seemed as good a time as any to ask.  (I would have tried
to answer the question for myself but I couldn't run newer versions of
Totem I had compiled because of my messed up audio configuration.)

> As Alan said, we use single key shortcuts for most things as we want it
> to be easily usable from a keyboard.

I should have also mentioned my limited understanding is that Gtk doesn't
make it particularly easy to have multiple different shortcuts for the
same thing.  It is not worth changing Totem just for consistency it is
more important to have both keybindings to meet a variety of different
user expectations.

> File bugs if you think Totem uses the wrong key combos for some things
> (and look for the already opened ones, there's one about using
> "non-standard" zoom keys).

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302746

Thanks.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan
http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/