Bug 225220 - Improve keyboard usability for Available media popup
Summary: Improve keyboard usability for Available media popup
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: krusader
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Krusader Bugs Distribution List
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Reported: 2010-02-02 01:20 UTC by Frank Steinmetzger
Modified: 2018-05-13 05:43 UTC (History)
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Description Frank Steinmetzger 2010-02-02 01:20:31 UTC
Version:            (using 4.3.5 (KDE 4.3.5), Gentoo)
Compiler:          gcc-4.3.4 
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.30-gentoo-r8

In Krusader 2, if I hit Ctrl+M, I get a popup menu of file systems, that has the accelerator key mostly on the storage capacity. In my case:

12.0 GiB Windows (ntfs-3g) [/media/c-ntfs]
‾
30.0 GiB Data (ntfs-3g) [/media/d-ntfs]
‾
19.0 GiB Linux (ext3) [/]
   ‾
234.4 GiB Home (ext3) [/home]
‾
and so on. Though it is an improvement over Krusader 1 which had no accelerator in this popup at all (which is why I set Ctrl+M to show media:/ instead), this is not very keyboard friendly. Because I have to search which of the letters (or more likely numbers) is underlined and then either remember it or search for it again next time.

I think that, for a human, it would be much better to use the file system label for accelerator keys. Because usually a (linux) user knows about his/her partitioning scheme and the respective file system labels. :-)

In an ideal world, the order of information of this popup could be made an option, perhaps to chose between
- the way it is now
- the way I’d prefer: Label with accelerator (capacity, FS type) [mount point]
- etc.

If this is overkill, at least I’d like to ask for a comma behind the capacity to make the items more readable.

Thanks for your time.