On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Jonathan Phillips wrote:
I think the HOME/PGUP/PGDOWN/END is a fabulous idea for object
I hate it. Strongly.
I hate it in the GIMP too but I get annoyed by it less often because they have the convenient overview/navigation wiget for fast convenient panning.
By all means have keybindings for this functionality but I dont think these are the right keys.
It will inevitabley cause confusion at first to have keys labelled 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' and for them to do anything other than go up and down the page but there are compromises that must be made given the limited amount of keys available. I could also suggest that it migth be ergonomically easier to use the alpha numerics because people who are good with the keyboard are most comfortable when their fingers are on the home keys (asdf,jkl).
arrangement. IT IS SUCH AN IMPROVEMENT OVER OTHER VECTOR APPS. I HOPE WE KEEP IT. SAME WITH THE SCROLL KEYS. Maybe the HIG is incorrect in spots
PLEASE DONT USE BLOCK CAPS IT IS CONSIDERED SHOUTING AND IT IS HARDER TO READ.
Maybe the HIG is incorrect in spots
The Gnome Human Interface Guidelines are by their nature incomplete generalisations and try to give the best answer for the greatest possible amount of people and provide a _consistant_ approach for all of Gnome.
Certainly there are areas where you should ask the writers of the Guidelines how and why they decided on something. There are many compromises involved in generalisations and it is wise to try and understand them and try to learn if those are the right compromises for your application.
The HIG is definately incorrect in spots and I encourage you to help find them and help make it better.
Also, Ahorkana, why don't you dig in, or provide some patches?
My name is Alan.
Patches, because I suck at programming and it would take an exceedingly long time for me to get anything done. I do think that my contributions are useful and worthwhile even if they do not come in the form of code and patches. Projects are made up of more than just programmers, I'm a stakeholder too.
If my suggestions are accepted as valid but no one is interested in implementing them straight away then I would file a report in the bug tracking system and if I had time to try and figure out how to patch it I would try. I have looked at the Sodipodi code before and I found it confusing.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan.