Re: Re: Design for Keyboard Shortcut Behaviour

How about allowing you to use the mouse to click on an icon?

-nand

Karl O'Keeffe wrote:

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