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List:       freedesktop-xdg
Subject:    Re: keyboard shortcuts
From:       Avery Pennarun <apenwarr () nit ! ca>
Date:       2004-08-11 17:49:58
Message-ID: 20040811174958.GC1379 () worldvisions ! ca
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On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:17:04PM +0200, Martin Konold wrote:

> > Shift+Arrow is a text selection key (works in mozilla). IMO a bad idea
> > for tab switching.
> 
> 1. Text selection with the keyboard makes only sense after using the
> _mouse_ to explicitly put the focus on the text area.

So shift-arrow works, as long as my keyboard focus doesn't happen to be in a
text entry box on a web page?  What if my home page is google, which moves
the keyboard automatically into a text entry box?

> 2. How often do you switch tabs compared to keyboard text selection in 
> Mozilla?

For me, they're fairly comparable, since about 50% of my browser activity is
in our office wiki.

Have fun,

Avery
 (who actually has no good suggestions to solve the problem)

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