Re: Re: Design for Keyboard Shortcut Behaviour

Rogelio Serrano <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.y.devel
Message-ID <850b58943a9d2e947f636f64fb525388@debian>
On 2004-05-26 02:00:08 +0800 Jonathan Harper 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> 
>> I removed the windows key from my keyboard. The caps lock too.
>> Cant we just keep the keyboard simple?
> 
> Heh, apparently not. Everyone else has the Caps Lock and 
> Winkey, so you're 
> the exception, not the rule.
> 
> As for Alt+Tab, what about making it open the traditional 
> dialog box, but 
> with the option of using arrow keys to jump around more 
> quickly? Or 
> something, because I'll be the first to admit that it's ugly, 
> annoying, and 
> frustrating. If I have twelve applications open, pressing 
> Alt+Tab ten times 
> to get to the application I used ten times ago, I've wasted my 
> time. Or 
> Alt+Tab could highlight the tasks in the taskbar, and the 
> arrow keys could 
> allow one to navigate through them. Letting go would then 
> bring that 
> application to the forefront.
> 
> Just two cents tossed out in a rush.
> 

Well what can i do except maintain my own keyboard code.
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