Re: Redo consistent keybindings for all. Ctrl+Shift+Z

The key bindings need to be first of all consistent with the normal
conventions on each platform; there are few things more frustrating than
working with application that has some arbitrary bindings. While
consistency across platforms would be nice, it has to come second to the
platform conventions. Yes, it complicates life for those who use AW on
different platforms, but that's life, you cannot please everyone, and I
have no doubts that the latter group is singificantly smaller then those
who just run use one OS.

Tomas

Alan Horkan wrote:
>
> I didn't spot it at the time but Frank changed the Mac OS X version of
> abiword to use different keybindings from the other platforms.
> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8058
>
> The thing is that the Gnome Human Interface guidelines borrow heavily from
> the Apple Guidelines and they also recommend using the keybinding
> Ctrl+Shift+Z for Redo. (Gnumeric 1.5 still uses Ctrl+Y but if Abiword
> changes they might be willing to change too.)
>
> This leaves only Windows as the odd one out and I think at this stage it
> would be best to keep Abiword consistent with Abiword than keep using the
> old Microsoft keybinding only on windows.
>
> What do people think?
>
> Sincerely
>
> Alan Horkan
>
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>
Received on Tue Mar 15 08:45:00 2005