On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 18:20 +0000, Crispin Flowerday wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:09 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:50 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > > > Hi Lee, > > > > > > On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > > > > Alt-D does not put the focus in the location bar like on > > > > Firefox/IE/Mozilla. This will annoy people. > > > > > > GNOME applications have Ctrl+L for this purpose. Using Alt+D is a > > > mistake, since it overrides menu accelerators. In German, for instance, > > > the File menu is called _Datei, activated with Alt+D. > > > > You can't make users constantly change the keystrokes they are used to > > using for common tasks, that work on every other OS and browser they > > use. Users will rightfully consider this a BUG. > > You don't explain how to solve the problem of the conflict with the > German file menu. Without explaining how you would solve that alt+d > can't be added as a shortcut.... >
Why can't we just do whatever Firefox does? How does it handle the German file menu? > Personally I have _never_ used alt+d to get to the location entry in any > browser, looking at IE it isn't at all clear that that is what it does. > Perhaps it works in IE as the German A_ddress text is translated to > something else with a different accel ? It does the exact same thing in IE as Firefox. And lots of users do use it. Lee _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
