Summary: | Usability: Dolphin "new tab" keyboard shortcut suggestion | ||
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Product: | [Applications] dolphin | Reporter: | Bassio <ahmedbassi> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Peter Penz <peter.penz19> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | wishlist | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 16.12.2 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | unspecified | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Bassio
2008-06-29 13:31:24 UTC
Konqueror and Konsole in KDE use Ctrl+Shift+N, so if we change it in Dolphin we'd also have to change it for the other KDE applications... I just checked the KDE 3 version of Konqueror and also here Ctrl+Shift+N has been used. I personally don't like Ctrl+Shift+N myself, but won't change it until the other application maintainers agree. Maybe you can post your concerns at kde-usability@kde.org? Thanks! hmmm .. do you have konqueror kde 4? try Ctrl-T there .. it works!! Strangely as you mention, also Ctrl+Shift+N works in konqueror kde 4, so konqueror kde 4 now has two keyboard shortcuts for new tabs!! Can't Dolphin implement that so it becomes similar to konqueror kde 4? Ah, I was not aware about this. Yes, assigning an alternate shortcut is no problem, I'll implement this :-) I have seen the kde-usability. Their website is pretty much outdated which makes me doubt if the project is still running. Nice to have the alternate shortcut Thank you.. since Ctrl-t is much easier. And making Ctrl-T the default will be more intuitive for new users .. while still not breaking the old 3-key one for old users who got used to it. Click File--> "New tab Ctrl-Shift-N" should perhaps read "New tab Ctrl-T" while preserving Ctrl-Shift-N in the background. Can I depend on you to contact konqueror and other maintainers to discuss the consistency of this issue? Or do you want me to contact them? We need to have a pretty much standardized shortcut for new tab in all kde-apps, so if konqueror maintainer is thinking about shifting to Ctrl-T as the default in the future then why not shift and make it a universal standard? > Can I depend on you to contact konqueror and other maintainers > to discuss the consistency of this issue? Or do you want me to contact them? Sorry, I but I only have around 5 hours per week time for Dolphin and get around 10 bug reports/wish requests per day ;-) By using CTRL-T as alternative shortcut Dolphin is consistent with Konqueror and for me the issue is solved. Discussions about changing default shortcuts for KDE are mostly endless, so I won't jump into such a discussion myself ;-) > We need to have a pretty much standardized shortcut for new tab > in all kde-apps, so if konqueror maintainer is thinking about > shifting to Ctrl-T as the default in the future then why not > shift and make it a universal standard? The Konqueror maintainer (= David Faure) and I are in close contact. David would not make a change without giving me a note. The same is valid for the other direction: If I change a shortcut in Dolphin I check this with David. Anyhow we can not change a default shortcut in KDE without discussion in core-devel@kde.org... SVN commit 825833 by ppenz: provide Ctrl+T as alternative shortcut to Ctrl+Shift+N for "New Tab" like Konqueror BUG: 165309 M +1 -1 dolphinmainwindow.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=825833 |