On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:50 -0500, George Kraft IV wrote: > I would like to propose adding a GNOME (metacity) keybinding such as > "<Ctrl><Alt>s" to start the user's preferred visual assistive > technology. > > http://live.gnome.org/GAP/ScratchPad/PreferredApplications > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387973 > > What key sequence would work the best and not conflict or be confused with > others?
Unfortunately there's a bit of inconsistency in how our default global shortcuts have been chosen generally... note that we also now have Ctrl-Alt-L for lock screen :/ Alt-F1 (pop up main menu) Alt-F2 (open Run... dialog) PrintScreen (screenshot) Alt-PrintScreen (screenshot of focused window) Ctrl-Alt-L (lock screen) Ctrl-Alt-D (show desktop) The dilemma, as usual, is that Ctrl-alt-<letter> is easier to remember for users, but potentially takes shortcuts away from application developers. Alt-F<n> is less likely to be used by an application, but is harder to remember for users. That said, applications should very rarely need to resort to using Ctrl-Alt-<letter> for their own purposes... are there any examples of GNOME apps that do? If not, I'd be inclined to slightly prefer Ctrl-Alt-<something>; if so, I guess we should go with Alt-F<something>. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
