From freedesktop-xdg  Wed Aug 11 17:51:30 2004
From: Claes Holmerson <claes () it-slav ! net>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:51:30 +0000
To: freedesktop-xdg
Subject: Re: keyboard shortcuts
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Martin Konold wrote:

> Am Wednesday 13 August 2003 20:18 schrieb Marko Macek:
>
> Hi,
>
> > 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.

I don't understand what you mean here. Surely text selection with the
keyboard is useful also when focus has been put there by other means, such
as tabbing?

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

This is surely something that varies greatly between users,
but in cases where Mozilla is used as user interface for web applications
such as webmail, I think text selection is with the keyboard is an important use case.

Personally I think switching tabs within an application is similar to
using alt-tab for switching between applications.

Claes
>
> Yours,
> -- martin
>
> Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold
>
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