...at least with its current behavior. Having hud on ctrl would make sense I think if: 1. It activated on a timeout ater pressing and holding ctrl. 2. One could type the desired command while holdgin ctrl (This would need incorporating current common keyboard shortcuts like ctrl+c ) 3. HUD would execute the command on the release of ctrl.
But this would need a larger re-design and by no means would it make to 12.04 2012/4/14 balint...@gmail.com <balint...@gmail.com> > I have changed my HUD trigger to ctrl just to try how it would act. I can > say after an hour of heavy text-editing HUD activated about 50 times from > which about 2 was intentional. I think it pretty much gets in the way > rather than help with ctrl. > > 2012/4/14 Evan Huus <eapa...@gmail.com> > >> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad < >> joerlend.schins...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Den 14. april 2012 20:25, skrev Josh Strawbridge: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> i use my little/small/pinkie finger to hit ctrl. i find it much more >>>> comfortable than hitting alt with my thumb. i've never found alt to be a >>>> comfortable reach. >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>> I tried to understand how that's possible, but it's a little bit >>> difficult. When I have my hands in the resting position, my left thumb is >>> about one inch from the left alt-key. I would've preferred it to be a >>> little to the right, at the cost of a slightly smaller space bar, but it's >>> still easily accessible to me. At the very least, it's much more >>> comfortable than the Ctrl-key, which requires me to lift my arm or twist my >>> hand. >>> >>> Do you have a weird keyboard, or do you have weird hands? :) >>> >> >> Whatever he has, I have it too :) >> >> With my hands in resting position, Alt is just to the left of where my >> thumb naturally rests on the spacebar. Super (AKA 'Windows') is just to the >> left of that, and Ctrl is just to the left of that. Ctrl, Super and Alt are >> all approximately the same size. With my hands in resting position, my left >> pinkie rests on the 'A' key. If I move it down a fraction of an inch, it's >> on left-shift, and if I move it down another fraction of an inch it's on >> the left Ctrl key. Both are comfortable movements. This is on a 'pure' >> american-english keyboard - does yours have some extra keys for Norwegian >> that change the layout? >> >> Evan >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> > > > -- > *Csonka Bálint* @913 > > -- *Csonka Bálint* @913
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