RE: [Usability] Mac-Finder-like keyboard-navigation: Ctrl="and cl ose the current one"

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: usability-admin gnome org 
> [mailto:usability-admin gnome org] On Behalf Of Curtis C. Hovey
> Sent: Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2003 01:52
> To: Usability
> Subject: Re: [Usability] Mac-Finder-like keyboard-navigation: 
> Ctrl="and close the current one"
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 18:58, Kai Willadsen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 00:31, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > > 2. Use Ctrl -Double-click to open the folder and close 
> the current 
> > > one at the same time.
> > >    (This is not yet implemented in Nautilus. Windows does 
> this too, 
> > > though it doesn't have spatial folder windows)
> > 
> > How would this be work with single-click operation? Currently, 
> > Ctrl-click is used to toggle selection and Shift-click extends the 
> > selection. As far as I can tell, the "and close the current one" 
> > behaviour just doesn't exist in Windows in single-click mode.
> 
> 'Open folder in existing window' is a modal setting from 
> Folder options under Windows.  While I use this setting when 
> I've used Windows, I don't care for it.  I think the correct 
> behavior is more like the Mac.

He is talking about "single-click operation", not "Open folder in existing
window". I don't know why, but I made the same mistake at first when reading
this.

> I don't think we will find a satisfactory solution with 
> <meta>+left-click options; they're used up.  My laptops don't 
> have a middle-button, so I propose we explore the right-click.

If the Mac can do it, then I'm fairly sure that we can do it. I'm not giving
up yet, whether it means we use Ctrl or Shift.

> Ctrl-right-click and Shift-right-click appear to be 
> available.  If neither are appropriate to the key binding's 
> scheme, would either of the existing left-click options work 
> with a right click?
> 
> I vaguely recall reading in _/The Human Interface/_ how the 
> author thought the Mac should have had a three button mouse.

I always wanted 5 independently moving clickable pointers - one for each
finger.
  
> The thumb-button was for selecting and grabbing, the 
> left-button was for activating, and the right button was for 
> inspecting.  I'd like to move the select options to another 
> button (but I only have the right).

Murray Cumming
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