Re: Re: Design for Keyboard Shortcut Behaviour

On May 26, 2004, at 4:00 am, Jonathan Harper wrote:

> 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.

Yeah some alternative is needed as well I think. But I'd like to make 
sure that it provided a real difference in efficiency over alt-tab.

I'm not sure if using the arrow keys to navigate around is that much 
better than alt-tab, but I'm happy to have you convince me.

Karl