On 9/27/07, Michael Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My early experiences with computing were with CAD programs. Pre-Windows > there was AutoCad (DOS) and a number of UNIX based systems. Heavy users of > CAD, which has a very strong mouse or stylus use component like Dia, would > quickly find that placing the left hand on the keyboard and the right on the > mouse and using as many left hand keystroke shortcuts as possible was the > most productive manner of operating the programs.
Hear! Hear! Allow me to hijack this and once again root for my personal favourite combination: F2 and "second click" to enter text edit mode. This has the additional plus point that it copies a well-known key-mapping, from Nautilus and Explorer. In terms of user interaction, I see no difference between a file icon and a text object ... their appearance suggests the same interface for the related action of "editing text visible in that icon". This also does not interfere with selecting an object by simply clicking on it. To exit text edit mode, I would vote for Shift-Esc as well as clicking elsewhere, since Esc is strongly associated with abort. We could even try "Enter" as an additional shortcut since that will round off the analogy with file renaming. It does affect the ablity to enter multiline text, but if we choose to do that, we can use "Ctrl-Enter" like Pidgin to start a new line. Sameer. -- Research Scholar, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/ _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
