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Title: Ctrl-L is a poor keybinding for "Clear" Status in Chat app, and Telepathy user interface: Confirmed Status in PSI+ Ubuntu packages: New Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “pidgin” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “xchat” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: The Ctrl-L keybinding to clear the conversation history in empathy is horribly annoying. At this point, most applications (most notably nautilus and gedit, but many others as well) have followed the lead of Firefox to use Ctrl-L to present a "Go to location" UI. It is remarkably annoying when you press Ctrl-L expecting this and yet your current conversation is cleared due to empathy accidentally still having focus. Moreover, "L" is on the home-row of most keyboard layouts, thereby making it extremely easy to hit accidentally. I have hit Ctrl-L accidentally countless times both out of finger- fatigue and just carelessness. This requires me to interrupt my thought, go up to the menu, open the log window, find the log, restore my previous mental state, and then keep two windows open until I'm finished referring to the conversation history. From a desktop usability standpoint, that's a pretty destructive operation for a home-row keybinding. As a distribution which seeks to meet Apple's standard of overall desktop usability (especially for casual users), issues like these are going to need to be handled on a community-wide level (hence the various projects included on this bug). There are few ways to alienate new users faster than by putting legacy-driver keybindings with little applicability to every-day tasks in easy-to-hit positions. Moreover, in this instance, the legacy argument hardly holds water. While in terminal applications Ctrl-L has historically redrawn the screen to recover from terminal corruption, this doesn't map onto the GUI environment. Having a clear key is certainly understandable, but putting it in a home-row position is just sloppy UI design. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/empathy/+bug/304477/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
