Re: [HCI] Focus navigation with arrow keys
- From: Pavel Machek <pavel ucw cz>
- To: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>, gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [HCI] Focus navigation with arrow keys
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:17:57 +0100
Hi!
> I think the first problem makes this capability pretty useless
> with the current key bindings. We could have different keys
> that _always_ moved the focus, but finding a modifier+arrows
> combination that:
>
> A) is not already in use.
>
> B) Users will have some chance of discovering.
You can actually _tell_ users. Providing help page with "usual
keybindings" would be great.
> Seems a little difficult. (Control-arrows, Shift-arrows
> are standard CUA bindings. Combinations of multiple-modifiers
> plus arrows are frequently used by window managers, and
> are obscure in any case.)
Current keyboards have "windoze" key and menu key, usable as
modifiers, too.
Pavel
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I'm pavel ucw cz "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss linmodems org
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