On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Volker A. Brandt <vab at bb-c.de> wrote: >> > > Thanks for your reply. Yes shift Pg-Up/down works. I want to >> > > change the key binding to just Pg-Up/Down without shift. >> > >> > Hmm, I was sure we'd patched gnome-terminal many years ago to add PgUp/ >> > PgDn to the list of customisable shortcuts... I certainly remember a >> > long discussion about it, but can't find it now :/ >> >> >> It would be great do have it customizable. You can customize this behavior >> both in CDE and KDE. Solaris users coming from the CDE environment >> expect pg-up/down to have this default behavior. Fortunately, I can still run >> CDE on my main desktop but it's a problem on my desktop where I have >> switched over to gnome. > > You are absolutely correct. The irony here is that it is a small > problem with a big effect. > > OpenSolaris is trying so hard to be Linux that it hurts. But the > main audience is not Linux switchers who might have used gnome-terminal > before. And the non-functional pgup/pkgdown keys is invariably the > first complaint I hear from those people who actually do sit down to > try OpenSolaris (it was mine too, btw). >
It is so intriguing that tinny things can have so big impact when it comes to user experience. People are unwilling to press SHIFT: SHIFT + PGUP/DN when this combination can be pressed with one hand !!! > I fail to understand why this simple change has not found the way > into JDS/OpenSolaris. Sun could change the first user reaction from > "they can't even configure the terminal correctly" to "feels just > like home" in an instant. Sigh. > I could not find such a setting in KDE's Konsole as well. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
