I can't find the old discussion, but long ago I asked Jorge about adding a binding for stop, and I remember his response being something like "Maybe. Perhaps we could use <ctrl>P." As for me, I'm going to change it to use Escape in my keysrc because I can press it in a hurry after I accidentally mistype/misclick. I found it quite useful back in my netscape/mozilla-using pre-dillo days. Obviously that can't be the default here, though, because Esc is already taken.
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 02:46:45PM +0000, corvid wrote:
I can't find the old discussion, but long ago I asked Jorge about adding a binding for stop, and I remember his response being something like "Maybe. Perhaps we could use <ctrl>P."
The other one I can think of as mnemonic is <ctrl>x. What do people think?
As for me, I'm going to change it to use Escape in my keysrc because I can press it in a hurry after I accidentally mistype/misclick. I found it quite useful back in my netscape/mozilla-using pre-dillo days. Obviously that can't be the default here, though, because Esc is already taken.
That's the good part of it being configurable, I'm just trying to define a good default. -- Cheers Jorge.-
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:32:31AM -0400, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote:
The other one I can think of as mnemonic is <ctrl>x. What do people think?
That clashes with "Cut". Select some text in the URL window and <ctrl>+x will delete it. I think it's not a good idea to grab something that (a) already has a conventional action, and (b) already performs that conventional action in the GUI. And while we're talking about conventional use: Dillo is highly unconventional when it uses <ctrl>+q to close a tab. Everyone else[1] uses <ctrl>+w to close a tab (<ctrl>+<shift>+q to close a window) and <ctrl>+q to quit. Which can be annoying when switching between the two. Firefox uses Escape to stop, and arora[2] uses <ctrl>+. . Regards, Jeremy Henty [1] ie. Firefox :-) [2] http://code.google.com/p/arora/ - WebKit+Qt-based browser. It looks very nice and may supplant Firefox as "the browser to fall back to when Dillo can't handle the page".
Jeremy wrote:
That clashes with "Cut". Select some text in the URL window and <ctrl>+x will delete it. I think it's not a good idea to grab something that (a) already has a conventional action, and (b) already performs that conventional action in the GUI.
And while we're talking about conventional use: Dillo is highly unconventional when it uses <ctrl>+q to close a tab. Everyone else[1] uses <ctrl>+w to close a tab (<ctrl>+<shift>+q to close a window) and <ctrl>+q to quit. Which can be annoying when switching between the two.
Firefox uses Escape to stop, and arora[2] uses <ctrl>+. .
You know, if dillo just changed all of its default bindings to whatever firefox does, that would probably be a relief to every single casual user, and probably would only force a little relearning or keysrc editing on the subset of the population interested enough to be subscribed to dillo-dev.
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