[ge-talk] new way for keyboard shortcuts

[Paul van Nugteren]

I think for keyb. shortcuts to make sense there has to be a common
standard. I'd add to the current standard that if there is no text-field
which has focus the for example 'alt-r' combination would accept only
'r' too. It's very quick; with Refraction you press z and you get zoom
tool, alt-z is zoom out p is the pen tool.

There was a mockup or prototype keyboard made by a Russian design team.
It was a keyboard which had little (OLED) screens inside each key. It
would change if you'd choose another keymap, focussed on a particular
app like photoshop and the key's would resemple photoshop's tools, very
cool and definately the future IMO.

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:07:16 -0500, "Ari Haviv" <arielbhaviv at gmail.com>
said:
> On 1/30/07, Waldemar Kornewald <wkornewald at haiku-os.org> wrote:
> > Hi Ari,
> > >
> > > So you'd hit control, type cut, hit enter and the selected text would be cut.
> > > Another advantage is that you could type page down and not have to
> > > reach all the way to the page down key.
> >
> > There is already a similar concept and you can even buy software for
> > Windows that does exactly this. The commands are available in *all*
> > applications, though. For example, I can select text within Firefox
> > and type "word count" (it's sufficient to type the first few letters
> > because it's auto-completed) and I automatically know how many words
> > my selected text has. There are also commands for "spellcheck" and
> > "define" (gets definition of the selected word) and you can even
> > launch applications that way.
> >
> > But instead of having to press CTRL and then ENTER (which is modal)
> > you just hold down CAPSLOCK (yeah, this key finally becomes useful!)
> > and type the command. Release CAPSLOCK and it gets executed.
> >
> WOULDN'T (whoops) wouldn't that make anything I type allcaps? :)
> this would be very bad for people who have trouble holding down more
> than one key at a time
> You then end up needing
> http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windowsxp/stickykeys.aspx
> 
> Like I said, there are some people who simply can't use a mouse and
> they have to be able to do everything with the keyboard. With others,
> it's simply faster not having to reach for the mouse all the time.
> With my idea they don't need to reach for function keys or hold
> anything down either
> 
> > I think that this is only useful for experts. It's basically the
> > combination of GUI and CLI. I was thinking of using CAPSLOCK for
> > running queries and executing applications instead of as a general
> > command key. This *could* even be realistic for R2 (or maybe even R1
> > if someone implements the input_server filter?).
> >
> 
> It's not really a cli. It just substitutes the keyboard shortcuts such
> as control+z for undo with control/undo/enter. Someone could make an
> alias like un for undo or ps for print screen.
> 
> I suppose it could be like a basic cli for opening or closing apps or
> restarting the pc.
> 
> > Bye,
> > Waldemar Kornewald
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