Re: Amaya 9.3 RC RFE: F5 key

On Sunday 04 December 2005 07:13, Bartolomé Sintes Marco wrote:
> Hi,
>
> New structure navigation functions are useful, but the key assignment
> could be improved.
>
> For instance, in Amaya 9.2.2, F5 meant "reload", nut in Amaya 9.3 RC F5
> means "select first child". I do not like this change. F5 is used as
> "reload" in main Windows browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox,
> and Opera) and I suppose most users are used to this behaviour.
>
> In the same way, the F1 key assigment to "Select previous" is not a good
> idea, because F1 usually opens the Help file. AFAIK, browsers use the
> following F* keys:
> F1: Help
> F3: Search
> F4: Opens address bar (IE only)
> F5: Reload
> F6: Next frame (window <-> address bar)
> F7: Caret browsing (FF only)
> F10: window <-> menu
> F11: Fullscreen
>
> I do not know if users are used to use all these shorcuts, but Amaya
> should try to not use them. Then, it is not easy to find four free keys
> for new functions.
>
> A possible solution could be:
> F2: Select parent
> Shift+F2 or F12: Select first child
> F8: Select previous
> F9: Select next

Some of these keys cannot work on MacOS X.
We'll try to find a solution.
>
> Best regards,
> Bartolomé Sintes (http://www.mclibre.org)

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