On 09/06/2007 09:03:28 PM, John Gabriele wrote:
On 9/6/07, Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote: [...] Yes, I guess this last comment of yours is where our opinions really differ. I think that grouping leads to making them easier to get into your muscle memory. As in, one's fingers automatically reach for Shift-Alt when you know you're doing a selection operation... or the Alt key if you know you're going to manually hit a menu or some other GUI element. Like keybinding namespaces. It sounds like you and
Well, Shift-Alt is just a bit too awkward on most keyboards, and the Alt modifier always for GUI elements sometimes goes against things 'everyone' is used to, e.g. Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn to switch documents.
Enrico prefer the bindings to be more of a grouping of most-commonly-used (Ctrl-<key>, Shift-Ctrl-<key>), to less-commonly-used (Ctrl-Alt- <key>, F-keys) to least-commonly-used (Shift-Alt-<key>).
Anyhow, if that above list is on target, you may want to enshrine it in the Keybindings section of the Usage chapter of the manual.
I guess we could put some of that in the manual, and a copy of all of that in the HACKING file.
Some possible clarifications: [...]
Thanks, I'll add these sometime next week.
Regards, Nick