Cleaning up "Preferred Applications" & Desktop Consistency
Peter Robinson
peterr at opensystems.net.au
Wed Dec 31 02:09:30 UTC 2003
> > More generally we should make it a standard that all end-user
> > applications adhere to these common keybindings. Web browsers like
> > Mozilla *definitely* are end-user applications. This
> standard of course
> > does not mandate that developer applications with a tradition of a
> > different keybinding be changed, so of course Emacs and
> bash continue to
> > work as they do today.
> >
> > Is this sane?
>
> It's clearly/obviously sane, but hard to do on the
> distribution level. It sort of needs to be done upstream.
> It's much much simpler if we just use native widgets apps.
>
> developer.gnome.org has some big keybindings tables
> maintained by Calum Benson.
This sounds like a candidate for a freedesktop.org standard/recommendation
(if it isn't already).
One application that really annoys me with the non standard key bindings is
Gnome Terminal with the Ctr+Shift+[xcv] options altough I can see why
they're like this due to the app running in the term session possibly using
the ctrl+ options.
:Peter
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