Hi Calum, On Mi, 25.02.2009 13:41, Calum Benson wrote:
>> - How far should the keyboard shortcuts from good old Norton Commander >> (which are nowadays quasi-standards amongst split-view filebrowsers, >> mainly F5: copy selection to other side, F6: move selection to other >> side, TAB: make other pane active) be supported? > >Personally, I wouldn't be in favour of using any of those. The HIG says >about choosing application shortcut keys (emphasis mine): > > Do not use Ctrl+number *or numbered function keys* as shortcut > keys, unless the number has some obvious relevance to the > action. For example, Ctrl+2 and Ctrl+3 may be acceptable > shortcut keys for View ? 2D View and View ? 3D View in a 3D > modelling application. So Nautilus is actually violating this already, with Ctrl+{1,2,3} for selecting views. Anyways, for file operations, I'd be very happy to not have shortcut keys at all. As long as menu entries exist, users can assign their own keys. >And for moving focus between panes, GNOME/gtk already has a standard >shortcut (F6: next pane, Shift-F6: previous pane). So inventing a new >one, not to mention over-riding the standard usage of Tab, wouldn't be >recommended. Well, Tab is the standard key for walking through the focus chain. The question is just what the focus chain should contain. The draft that I coded up so far sets a focus chain containing only the left and right panes in split view mode. That's what people who used a split-view filebrowser before most likely expect. Holger -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list