typing in the Spread mode will automatically perform search on the titlebars. Delete-key will be needed for use in these contexts. For a keyboard shortcut to successfully work in the Spread context, it would HAVE to have a modifier before it I think.
> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:29:10 +0000 > From: m.richardson.1...@hotmail.co.uk > To: unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Unity Task Switching (keyboard-shortcut for > closing spread windows) > > Yes I did. I am aware of the functions of the delete key. My first > choice of key would have been escape, but that's already used. > The delete key is unused in this context, it is intuitive IMHO and it is > actually fairly rare that an accidental deletion (though I'm not > entirely clear how that would happen in this context) is irreversible. > Deleted characters/words are usually in programs for which there is an > undo function and deleting files has a confirmation and can be undone. I > don't really understand the problem with using it. > We drag items to the trash to remove them from the launcher. I would > like to extend this functionality to closing windows in the spread and > therefore the use of the delete key makes perfect sense to me, as an > extension of this idea. > > On 17/03/12 09:20, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > > On 03/17/2012 02:34 AM, Matt Richardson wrote: > >> My only thought is that Ctrl+W is not intuitive for close. > >> Since any letter might represent an appropriate word in one language but > >> not another, I wonder if delete might not be more intuitive and > >> international? > > > > Do you really mean the Delete key? > > > > Without modifier, it deletes whatever is currently selected. In text, > > with no selection, it deletes the character after the cursor; with > > Ctrl it deletes the word after the cursor. > > > > It looks like Alt- and Shift-Delete are not in common use, but they > > are too close to commands that delete stuff and hence are not easy or > > even impossible to recover from, if the user does not understand what > > just happened. > > > > > > (Shortcuts for commands that exist in many applications should be > > configured on a system level. It should be feasible to change the > > shortcut for printing or the shortcut for select-all. Optimal > > shortcuts depend on the set of commands actually used, their relative > > frequency, position on the keyboard in the context of one hand on the > > mouse vs both hands on the keyboard or a user having only one > > functioning hand ...) > > > > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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