Closed
Bug 160777
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
change view source shortcut from cmd-E to cmd-U or Cmd-Opt-V
Categories
(Camino Graveyard :: Accessibility, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
VERIFIED
FIXED
Camino0.8
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(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: mikepinkerton)
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(Keywords: access)
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cmd-E is used for view source in IE, but should we follow the mozilla convention and use cmd-U instead?
Comment 1•22 years ago
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This is requesting the same thing as bug 157051, but for different reasons. Note that while I commented that 157051 should be closed because command-E is _not_ a reserved combination, I have no objection to changing the shortcut for ease-of-use reasons. Right now, the view source command is command-E in IE, command-U in Moz, and shift-command-V in OmniWeb. It is difficult to map this shortcut to something intuitive, since V, P and S are all reserved so we can't use any capital letters of the command name, "View Page Source." OmniWeb's use of shift-command-V is also a bad solution, not only because it is three keys (which might not really be a problem, since this is a relatively infrequently used command), but because shift key shortcuts are supposed to complement their command key shortcut, and View Source has nothing to do with Paste. Looking at the letters in the command that aren't reserved or recommended in the context of a browser, we have **e* ***e **ur*e. In text editing applicaitons, command-U is underline, and we are likely to have more users migrating from IE thatn from Moz, so the current mapping seems logical to me.
Comment 2•22 years ago
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IMO we should stick with the IE convention, since that is what most of the Chimera users will have been using already.
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Comment 3•22 years ago
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feel free to wontfix this...
*** Bug 157051 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Personally, I don't think we do have to use letters that occur in the text "View Source" for the shortcut. Seriously, if you try to remember the shortcut for this, will you think "Oh maybe it is E because an E occurs in View Source" ? Certainly not, the same holds for U. I admit that Cmd-E offers itself kind off since it is used in IE which is the dominant browser on Mac OS X. However, Cmd-E is used in a big lot of other applications for the same thing (Enter string into the find dialog): *any Cocoa application that uses the Find menu from the InterfaceBuilder palette: TextEdit, Terminal.app, Mail.app, ProjectBuilder, InterfaceBuilder, to name a few * BBEdit * CodeWarrior * OmniWeb And I think this number will grow as more applications adapt to this. We already have a patch on bug #160771 that implements a better "Find" interface similiar to other Cocoa apps (and sharing the find string with them! a very essential feature for me, I wish BBEdit would support it). Faced with the decision of trying to be compatible with many applications, and one (albeit important) application, my choice is clear. :-)
Comment 6•22 years ago
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Yes, I suggested that we use command-U for view source if we actually have the Use Selection for Find command mapped to command-E; I was just saying that we shouldn't do things just to be like Mozilla if there isn't a good reason why Mozilla is doing them.
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Updated•22 years ago
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Component: General → Accessibility
Comment 7•22 years ago
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What if both Cmd+E and Cmd+U worked? can you not have to keyboard shortcuts that do the same thing? Other apps with shortcuts: * Mail.app uses Option+Cmd+U for View Source and Cmd+E for Use Selection for Find. * Safari uses Option+Cmd+V for View Source and Cmd+E for Use Selection for Find. Since Apple is the authority on HI, maybe we should align with them instead of IE (remember who makes it). But for the record, I am voting that it be changed to Cmd+U.
Comment 8•22 years ago
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According to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines, command-E is the preferred key combination for entering the current selection into find. People are, for the most part, used to this behavior since basically all Apple apps function like this. The lone exception is IE, which is certainly not a poster child for good UI design.
Comment 9•21 years ago
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*if* this keystroke is going to change I would prefer to see it moved to using V instead of E as that would better align it with other OS X browsers. I just don't see a big draw in making it behave like mozilla. Only problem is it appears Safari and OmniWeb are a bit conflicted as to which modifier keys are used (if i had to say i prefer safari here... both cause its easier to hit with my fat thumbs and for the reasons already stated)
Comment 10•21 years ago
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I think we should go with Safari. Opt-Cmd-V
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Comment 11•21 years ago
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will do.
Assignee: saari → pinkerton
Target Milestone: --- → Camino0.8
Comment 12•21 years ago
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Modified MainMenu.nib which now uses the (Safari like) Opt-Cmd-V keystroke to show sourrce.
Comment 13•21 years ago
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I certainly don't want to lengthen this relativly unimportant bug discussion, but as already has been mentioned, don't mix command key meanings by using other modifiers! This is certainly bad UI style and as long as we are not short on keys we shouldn't do this. I'd vote for cmd-U instead. I have a many other issues with key combos in Camino, I guess I'd better file another bug/enhancement report for that (hoping that someone will look at it).
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Comment 14•21 years ago
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martin, why are you so opposed to the safari keystroke? where in the HIG does it say we should steer clear of modifiers for functions that aren't used that often?
Comment 15•21 years ago
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To Mike: If you look at the standard keystrokes (Q, X, C, V, P) in my opinion any combinations with modifier keys and those keystrokes should have a similar meaning than the "original" keystroke. For instance, any combination with V should lead to some kind of paste-operation (paste without quoting, without styles...). I guess noone would come up with Command-Option-Q for doing something else besides quitting (perhaps without asking whether you really want to quit, which would be a nice feature if Camino did that when more than one window or tab is open).
Comment 16•21 years ago
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I don't agree with Martin. I think we should change it. Especially since I want to implement Use Selection for Find and that just has to be Cmd-E...
Updated•21 years ago
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Summary: change view source shortcut from cmd-E to cmd-U? → change view source shortcut from cmd-E to cmd-U or Cmd-Opt-V
Comment 17•21 years ago
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Okay, to follow the lines of good cocoa applications this is perfectly reasonable. My previous statement still applies - don't use key combos which involve the standard set. command-u would be fine with me, at least it matches Mozilla - I don't care about Safari (the last few times I started it, I only did to check functionality ;-).
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Comment 18•20 years ago
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changed to cmd-opt-v. we should implement set search string as cmd-e at some point (another bug).
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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Comment 19•19 years ago
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looks good in recent nightlies (for a long time).
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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