power-user's desktop is *tuned*, not just pre-set

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Eric Dunbar 

(No need to Cc me, I'm on the list)

| On 6/26/05, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen at canonical.com> wrote:
| > * Eric Dunbar
| >
| > | alt-~ or ctrl-~ are much better solutions since they require only one
| > | hand to activate whilst you can leave your hand on the mouse, and are
| > | something that ought to be implemented at the system level
| > | (GNOME/KDE/your favourite window manager)
| >
| > You are of course aware that ~ is a dead key on lots of keyboards and
| > way less accessible than Page Up or Page Down?  (To get ~ I have to
| > type AltGr-¨ + Space.  Combine that with Ctrl and you have something
| > which is horribly hard to type.)
| 
| Perhaps ` is a better way of describing it. On American keyboards ` is
| pretty much always left of the 1 key.

` too is a dead key on many keyboards and though it's more accessible
than ~, it's on the right hand side.  On my keyboard, the key to the
left of 1 gives me | and §.

| This ought to be the default way of cycling through windows (or at
| least a complementary way). Problem with page Up/Down is that it
| requires TWO hands to operate (home is on the left side of the
| keyboard for right handed users (90%))...

I'm not sure what you are talking about here, but I have never ever
seen a keyboard with home on the left hand side.  It's either in the
numpad or the cluster just above the inverted-t arrow keys.

| impractical in modern systems given that no modern user OS functions
| without a mouse and most people work with mouse in right hand and left
| key over home.

That it doesn't function without a mouse doesn't mean you can't do
most operations without a mouse.   Cycling windows, using menus and
similar things are easily done without a mouse.  Web browsing and
using the gimp less so.  If your right hand is already on the mouse,
switching windows with your mouse makes sense.  If it's on the
keyboard, using that makes sense.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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