Re: [Usability] Re: Control-center styles

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

tor 2002-01-03 klockan 00.31 skrev George:
> Not just emacs users.  Control-W is also very common and very useful in vim
> (for a long time I didn't know this meant delete word, I thought it was just
> for switching and managing windows in vim).  Most Control-something will
> clash with some terminal applications, whereas Alt-something won't.  Also
> lots of command line users would be quite peeved as well if we take
> Control-W.
> 
> I think in general, if we have viewports, those should not be bound on Alt-F?
> since that can confuse some new users coming from windows or some such, seems
> like just Alt-number works well.  We seem to not be using the function key
> row much anyway.

Alt+number is currently used by XChat and Galeon (applications with
tabs) for switching to a specific tab.


Christian