On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:49 +0100, Holger Berndt wrote: > On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:33:13 +0100 Alexander Larsson wrote: > > > I'd rather pick another key shortcut that is not used currently. As I > > commented in another thread, such a shortcut is useful even in the > > no-split-view case where it could set focus on the view, independent > > on where focus was before. Not sure what the best shortcut would be > > though. > > > > Ctrl-Tab? > > I'd be very happy with this one. > > > 10.2.4.2. Standard Widget Navigation Shortcut Keys in > > http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-keyboard.html.en > > lists some interesting keys, like: > > > > F6, Shift+F6 - Give focus to next/previous pane in a GtkPaned window > > F8 - Give focus to splitter bar in paned window > > Giving focus to the other pane in a GtkPane is not enough, because each > pane consists of a VBox layout containing the location bar and the > notebook, so I really want to focus the directory view, and not the > location bar, so one would have to fiddle around with the focus chain > again.
I don't mean to use these, just be "similar" to them. > > Maybe we could use F4 or something for switching between views / > > focusing the view. > > I'd like Ctrl-Tab much better. For my personal gut feeling it's much > more intuitive than e.g. F4 (which I connect to closing things). Ctrl-Tab is kinda iffy to hit though, compared to e.g. F4. > Tab is already closely connected to focusing things, be it Alt-Tab for > the WM, or Tab alone for the focus chain. I can very well see Ctrl-Tab > become "focus the most important thing of the current window, or > iterate between equally important things if you're already there". Well, Ctrl-Tab already has a different meaning in Gtk+. Not that this can't change or anything, but its a point against it. -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list