Cleaning up "Preferred Applications" & Desktop Consistency

[Simon Perreault]

On February 19, 2004 6:17, Warren Togami wrote:
> Font Bigger
> CTRL+= Shortcut (proposed)
> CTRL=+ Alternate (proposed)
> This simple change would make it behave exactly like Mozilla's defaults.

Everyone agrees that this should be done. I will investigate methods to do it.

> Clear Location Bar
> Ctrl+L Shortcut (proposed)
> Simple addition makes it behave very similar to Mozilla.

In KDE 3.1, that shortcut was present.

> Full Screen Mode
> Ctrl+Shift+F Shortcut
> F11 Alternate (proposed)
> Simple addition makes it behave like Mozilla and Internet Explorer while
> retaining the previous shortcut.

I'm fully in favor of this.

> Activate Next Tab
> Ctrl+. Shortcut
> Ctrl+] Alternate
> Ctrl+PageDown (proposed)
> Add Mozilla's binding if possible as another alternate, or replacing the
> less popular of the two current methods.  Which is the less popular of the
> two?  The PageUp and PageDown seems to be a standard for changing between
> tabs across many GNOME apps.  Is there a KDE equivalent standardized?

The standard KDE shortcut for next tab is CTRL+], but I couldn't find it 
written anywhere. CTRL+. was added for people with non-us keyboards who have 
to press a second modifier key to reach the ]. We could add a third shortcut, 
so there's no need to remove one of the other two.

There is another problem though: CTRL+PageDown is already defined as a 
standard KDE-wide shortcut. See 
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/keys/cursorKeys.html. 
It is used to go down one logical screen, ie. go to the next page. I can 
imagine this being used in paged media like PDF documents, but on a website 
it has no meaning.

I will propose this key in addition to the other two. Since it is not used, 
and will not be used as defined in the standard, I think we can make an 
exception.

> Activate Previous Tab
> Ctrl+ Shortcut
> Ctrl+[ Alternate
> Ctrl+PageUp (proposed)
> Add Mozilla's binding if possible as another alternate, or replacing the
> less popular of the two current methods.  Which is the less popular of the
> two?  The PageUp and PageDown seems to be a standard for changing between
> tabs across many GNOME apps.  Is there a KDE equivalent standardized?

Same as above.

> New Tab
> Ctrl+Shift+N Shortcut
> Ctrl+T Alternate (proposed)
> Open Terminal currently uses Ctrl+T.  This may be a controversial change
> for this reason.  The Ctrl+T function of Mozilla is heavily used.  If KDE
> does not accept this change upstream, I may personally lobby for it for
> Fedora defaults anyway.  Open Terminal would then need a different default
> shortcut.

This has been discussed on kde-usability and is associated with bug #59794, 
which can be viewed at http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59794. There seems 
to be more people for than against. I will propose a patch that closes this 
bug.

To be continued...

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