On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 15:55 -0200, Daniel F Moisset wrote:
> [...]
> > As a user of English, spanish, and latin-american keyboards, I am quite
> > sure this would be uncomfortable compared with ctrl+pgup/pgdn (which is
> > also a defacto standard).
>
> I had no idea about control-pageup/down. Of course, on my
> laptop keyboard we're talking about control-shift-fn-pgUp,
> which is starting to get inconvenient, and requires the use
> of both hands. { and } are shifted on my desktop keyboard,
> though (they are above [ and ]).
>
> You can't win with keybindings, all you can do is provide some
> default sets, and allow rebinding as much as possible, preferably
> in a way that can be saved to a single file to be moved to another
> computer as a starting point.
I agree, but lets aim for default shortcuts that people already recognize
from other applications. Ctrl-PgUp/Down is the de facto standard.
>
>
> The most irritating thing is when the mouse wheel switches tabs,
> e.g. in epiphany, because I go to scroll down and instead switch
> tabs. I'd like to turn that one off, for sure.
>
>
> Liam
>
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