A humble concern about keyboard abilities of GNOME
Sabri Ünal via desktop-devel-list <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnome.desktop |
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Dear GNOME Community I've been using GNOME-based Ubuntu Linux distributions since 2009. I accept me as a desktop-focused Linux user. I like to improve GNOME applications and I have been a GNOME Translator for some years. I also keen on finding bugs and reporting them. My favourite GNOME application is GIMP and I have translated 40% of it recently. I have a concern. GNOME has been focusing on some responsible sides of application recently but missing some fundamental keyboard-based common usages. As HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) defines some interface guidelines, I believe we need a keyboard guideline too. IMHO, a GNOME application should have some common keyboard commons. For example: * F1: Show help * F10: Open menu (if it has has a gear/hamburger menu) * F11: Fullscreen (if it has this ability) * Ctrl + F1: Keyboard shortcuts * Each GNOME application (Especially, if its name starts with GNOME) must at least have a help page which describes the ability of application. * Each GNOME application (Especially, if its name starts with GNOME) must have the Keyboard Shortcuts page. * Keyboard Shortcuts page must list these shortcuts under the General section: - F1: Show help - F10: Open menu (if it has has a Gear/Hamburger menu) - F11: Fullscreen (if it has this ability) - Ctrl + F1: Keyboard shortcuts My suggestion most probably solve some usability problems. -- Sabri Unal Free/Open Source software translator.