Difference between revisions of "Design Team/Proposals/Keyboard Action"

Revision as of 16:06, 22 March 2009

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discoverable, consistent, lazy-programmer keyboard shortcuts

monopoly key (windows key) would be the frame key. This would also be available as ctrl-enter as a (hopefully unnecessary) backup.

F1-F4 would be view / zoom level, as currently. Pressing F3 while already in home view would toggle view all/ring view, while pressing F4 while already in app view would cycle through open activities. If we ever get different friend sets or something, we could do something similar for F2. F9-F12 would be reserved for sugar, too - for instance, journal, context-sensitive help. F5-F8 would be for activity-specific functions. (IMO this is consistent with the XO keyboard and a fair way to divvy up this set of keys)

alt-<key> would be reserved for application-specific shortcuts. alt-<numeral> would switch toolbars to toolbar x. Holding alt would bring up a translucent letter over the appropriate icon in the toolbar. Python apps (at least) would get keys assigned for free, though they could do it manually with an underscore char (or similar) before the given letter. This behind-the-scenes magic would respect localization - shortcuts would change by language. Shortcuts would be available even if the given toolbar were not open.

ctrl-<key> would be reserved for sugar-wide (or nearly) shortcuts. This would presever z, x, c, v as the 1984 mac standards. ctrl-numeral would be equivalent to Fx (ie, F1). Other globally-available keys: print screen, view source, power/volume/brightness controls, shut activity (ctrl-escape), next/previous activity, possibly in the future chat-with-people-sharing-with-me-now/ bulletin board, etc. Holding down control would bring up a static cheat sheet of these shortcuts.

All other keys would have their conventional meaning, except for num lock. The number pad would always be numbers, and pressing num lock would cause the machine to make a loud farting noise.

proposal by Homunq 21:06, 22 March 2009 (UTC)