Re: Tutorial vs. help screen [Was: Re: If it is still unclear to someone...]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:20:46PM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> On 2007-03-21, Giles Constant <gilesc-o0Vg8R2zJDdOleTcPE3Aw/AlK7laVUyi9dF7HbQ/[email protected]> wrote:
> > At risk of starting a flamewar, I personally dislike all the ctrl-k shortcuts, 
> > so I reconfigured them.  I don't want to have to hit three keys at different 
> > ends of the keyboard to do a simple action!  If you're doing it repeatedly, 
> > it can get very clumsy.
> 
> Try hitting Control+x and then some other key at the same end of the
> keyboard -- impossible, unless your hands are made of rubber.

it's not so much whether control-x is better/worse than mod1-K. it's using two
keys here, which is annoying. of course if the keyboard is exhausted, 
that's the way to go for the remaining actions. but right now quite a few 

mod1+some_key

combinations are not used at all by default. 
I, too, remapped all the frequently occuring things to such combinations, e.g.

mod1+Q instead of mod1+K-P
mod1+W instead of mod1+K-N

which probably is the most frequently needed action in the whole of ion3, at
least with non-cinemascope monitors (maybe together with mod1+TAB, so having these
three near each other essentially takes care of 95% of the navigation).

so while I guess that the mod1+K scheme came about due to your use of `joe',
I believe that the minimum number of keyhits should be aimed at, i.e. first
exhaust the two-key kombinations for the frequent actions than use three  keys
for the more arcane ones.

joerg