Brian Cameron wrote: > Peter: > >>> To me, this sounds like the problem described in this email thread. I >>> think this is the right bug report. >> Do you know who logged that bug report? >> >> The bug refers to how the behaviour of PgUp/PgDown/Home/End have >> changed relative to Solaris 10 (and early SXCE builds). Where the keys >> scrolled the window, and no longer do so. > > Okay, thanks for clarifying. The original bug report was that these > keys should affect the scrollbar and work the same as when you hold down > the Shift key. So, we probably need to decide whether we want it to > work that way, or whether we want to define these keys to work as they > do on Linux, where they help you to navigate a file you are editing. > Personally, I think the later would be more useful.
It's not just GNU/Linux distributions; I recall it working that way on FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, and others as well. Right now pressing the 'page up' or 'page down' keys in a terminal just results in a '~' which is awful. Pressing the 'home' and 'end' keys does nothing at all; I'm fairly certain most users would expect those to go to the beginning and end of the line, respectively. > We probably should have just one bug report, since we can't have it > behave in both ways. That said, I am happy to move the bug back to the > jds/gnome/terminal category and clarify in the bug report that we want > the behavior to be the same as on Solaris 10 and early SXCE builds if > we think that is the right fix. I agree with the others that the bug you've retitled was probably asking for different behaviour. But it is my sincere hope that changing it to be more like the majority of other platforms would be good as part of the modernisation efforts spearheaded by David Comay. -- Shawn Walker
