Re: [HIG] DISCUSSION: Section 53: Keyboard Interaction Basics: Add bookmark shortcut

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 16Oct2001 04:52AM (+0200), Christian Rose wrote:
> Calum Benson wrote:
> > > 53. Mini-HIG > `Keyboard Interaction Basics' > `Standard Application
> > >     Given that more than 95 % of Web users use browsers where the
> > >     shortcut for `Add Bookmark' is Control+D or Command+D, not to
> > >     mention the thousands of Web pages which exhort you to bookmark them
> > >     by typing Control+D, the choice of Control+B for this function is
> > >     ... interesting.
> > 
> > Don't blame me, blame Eazel  :)  I guess it's a question of whether we
> > prefer to upset all the existing Nautilus users, or all the existing
> > Mozilla users.
> 
> We investigated this when we had the same discussion for Galeon
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57838). It turned out most
> popular and modern browsers use Control+B to open the bookmarks editor,
> and Control+D to add a bookmark. Nautilus simply has no bookmarks
> editor, so that might be the reason why Control+B became "Add bookmark".

Nautilus does have a bookmark editor, but the bookmark editor doesn't
have a keyboard shortcut since it's not a very commonly used feature.
 
> If you follow the discussions of that report, you'll see that it's not
> really a question of Nautilus versus Mozilla, it's Nautilus and
> Konqueror versus Galeon, Mozilla, Netscape and Internet Explorer. In my
> opinion, compability with the second group of browsers in this case will
> make most users feel at home.

That makes some sense, but I really think Control+B is much more
obvious and it's weird to have it assigned to the less common "Edit
Bookmarks..." operation rather than the extremely common "Add
Bookmark" operation. Whoever decided that at Microsoft (I'm pretty
sure this comes from IE originally) was on some big-time crack.

> <B>ookmarks Editor, a thing that most sane web browsers (except
> Nautilus) have? ;-)

Did you even bother to check before you wrote this email?

 - Maciej