Re: Remaining HIG Menu Issues

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

I'll make patches...

dave

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:28, Alex Larsson wrote:
> On Wed, 1 May 2002, Calum Benson wrote:
> 
> > Dave Bordoley wrote:
> > > 
> > > Here are the remaining ones:
> > > 1. Bookmark shortcuts. Currently the hig recommends "Add Bookmark"
> > > should be Ctrl-D and Edit Bookmarks should be Ctrl-B. Ctrl-D interferes
> > > with the duplicate shortcut. Are we going to be hig compliant? note: now
> > > that the arrow keys are being used for the navigation short cuts ctl-u
> > > is available and could be used for duplicate. Need a decision on this.
> > 
> > My personal preference here would be to go with the HIG's Ctrl-D for Add
> > Bookmark, and either choose a different shortcut for Duplicate, or just
> > drop the Duplicate shortcut altogether (unless we know it's really
> > widely-used).  Whether or not we'd like to resurrect Nautilus as a web
> > browser going forward is kind of irrelevant I think; if there's a
> > function on the menu that has a standard shortcut, I believe we should
> > use that shortcut.
> 
> Yeah. I agree. This is what we will do.
>  
> > > 2. Home shortcut. Currently we use ctl-h, galeon use ctl-home, mozilla
> > > uses alt-home and i'm fairly sure IE uses alt-home. I recommend going
> > > with ctl-home to be consistent with galeon. I don't believe there is a
> > > hig recommendation on this. Calum?
> > 
> > Problem with Ctrl+Home is that with the current Nautilus selection
> > model, it ought to move focus to the first item in the list/icon view
> > without selecting it (can't remember off-hand if it actually does this
> > or not, however).  Given our recent Up/Down/Back/Forward discussion, I
> > guess Alt+Home would perhaps be the best bet, if it doesn't clash with
> > anything else.
> 
> Ctrl-Home goes to the first item without deselecting the current one, just 
> like ctrl-arrows does.
> 
> Alt-Home seems like a good idea though.
> 
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