GTK+ 2.8.0 released
Posted Aug 14, 2005 18:20 UTC (Sun) by
Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to:
GTK+ 2.8.0 released by zooko
Parent article:
GTK+ 2.8.0 released
Well, I also hate this behaviour but I don't think there is much which can
be done about it. GNOME is the way it is, and changing things like this
now would confuse a lot of users. GNOME and KDE use Windows interface
decisions with a sprinkling of X11, Motif and command line features.
Sometimes they don't work very well together.
The thing that bugs me the most is the way selections work. If I click in
a text box I abolutely don't want to highlight the whole field
automatically. If I wanted to do that I could use shift-home or
shift-hold-left-key or even control-a. In Mozilla and Windows I am always
accidently replacing things instead of inserting or appending them because
things end up getting selected I don't expect to. To actually get Windows
to insert is a fight. I think you have to click four times, at the right
speed. Then there is the "helpful" word-boundary guessing which ends up
as something to fight more often than it helps. In xterm, you can give it
instructions on what characters should be included in double-click
selections. I wish that setting worked in every application.
The idea of using control as the modifier at all bothers me. The Mac
Apple/propeller key and Motif's Alt modifiers seem more natural. Control
seems like something for use in terminals and editing text. The absolute
worst is that the KDE and GNOME terminal applications don't let you kill
running programs because control-C just copies the hightlighted text. So
even when using GNOME/KDE I use xterms. They are more lightweight and
respond more quickly. And I have fewer problems with mismatching actual
and apparent terminal sizes.
Control-W and control-U doing the "wrong" thing causes me to constantly
close windows and open unwanted ones by accident as well. But I know it
isn't really a bug, it's because I have the Unix command-line keystrokes
burned into my brain and most other people have Windows keystrokes burned
into theirs. :(
Oh well, what can one do?
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