On 9/28/07, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rename F2 Switch the selected item's label into edit mode, > allowing user to type in a new name. > > All I am saying is that the "action" here is very very close to > editing the text in a text object. Replace "label" and "name" with > "text", and you have the same description.
For what its worth, I just discovered that spreadsheet programs (Gnumeric and also the one in OpenOffice) also use F2 to edit the contents of a cell. I have rarely used spreadsheets before, and I decided to try F2 because it seemed natural in the light of my arguments so far, and it worked! Only one fine point ... the Gnome HIG says "allowing the user to type in a new name". If we were to follow that strictly, we would have to make the whole text selected by default assuming the user always wants to replace the existing text with new text. The spreadsheets enter plain edit mode and not replace mode. Sameer. -- Research Scholar, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/ _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list Dia-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia
