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List:       gimp-developer
Subject:    Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: [Gimp-user] keybinding for File->Open
From:       Nathan Summers <rockwalrus () gmail ! com>
Date:       2004-09-20 19:39:30
Message-ID: 955afe4404092012397e9bd112 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:27:30 +0200, Simon Budig <simon@budig.de> wrote:
> [Sven pondered changing the CTRL-L shortcut of the layers dialog so that
> it is available for "File / Open Location" as suggested by the HIG.]
> 
> Sven Neumann (sven@gimp.org) wrote:
> > Simon Budig <simon@budig.de> writes:
> > > I frequently use CTRL-L to bring the layers tab to the front, it is a
> > > handy shortcut.
> Generally I'd like to have some kind of policy on the keyboard
> shortcuts. I tend to be a bit conservative with changing defaults,
> especially when I have to explain changes to people on fairs etc.
> (The <Image>->Image/Layers reorganisation still bites people - but this
> was IMO a necessary change).
> 
> Maybe I am talking blatantly obvious stuff now, but maybe it is the time
> to explicitely state this: We should prefer Gimp-Usability over
> Standard-Compliance. Always. And just because we happen to implement
> lots of the HIG-suggestions that should not imply that we implement
> everything that remotely seems applicable. Especially I'd like to
> suggest better reasoning than "it's in the HIG" when it is about
> first-class[2] established keyboard shortcuts.

Definately.  The HIG is useful, but even its authors will tell you
it's not perfect, and every single niggly detail isn't necessarily
applicable to every application.  I think in general we should have a
good reason for departing from the HIG, but in this case we definately
have a good reason.

Rockwalrus
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