On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, MJ Ray wrote:
That seems to be exactly what they are doing, from reading their release notes. So screw all of you X users, mmmkay?
Or how about "Microsoft and Apple plough millions into usability studies, perhaps they have a point", or "if 95% of the population expect CTRL-A to select all, perhaps we should be consistent", or "current keybindings date back to limited capability terminals, it's time to move on"?
As long as it's reconfigurable, I don't see a problem.
Brokenness of other applications is no reason to continue it.
Brokenness by what definition?
Actually, isn't Galeon GNOME/GTK+2, which is what I was complaining about?
Galeon is a mozilla derivative, so presumably has the same keybinding as Mozzilla, across _all_ platforms.
Home is a very poor key for such a common function, being over on the navigation keypad, making you relocate your hands.
Only one hand, and only one keypress rather than an RSI-inducing key combo.
"Home" is a lot better for "start of buffer"
CTRL-Home
but the functions which are normally bound in the main keypad: start/end of line; delete backwards and forwards; transpose characters; mark/copy/kill/yank region; are there for a reason.
<comment type="inflammatory common sense"> I'd suggest they are there for *nix hackers and are a legacy from the limited-capability terminal days. They are not friendly to the mass audience. Let's dump the elitism and start doing what usability suggests is best for a change (as Red Hat and Gnome appear to be doing). After all, the hackers can always reconfigure. </comment>
Andrew.