On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 08:42 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > For more 'advanced' users, the keyboard shortcuts are there, and you're > > probably going to want to use them if you don't want to gnaw your own > > legs off out of boredom. No, they're not particularly discoverable: it's > > very difficult to design an interface which makes keyboard shortcuts > > discoverable without pissing you off once you know them. I mean, when > > have keyboard shortcuts ever been discoverable? Is alt-tab discoverable? > > Is alt-f4? No. We just pick them up somewhere and learn them. > > is everything that gnome shell can do exposed as a non-keyboard > interactions? Can you describe to me how I get the screencasting > utility to start and stop recording without using a keyboard shortcut? > There's no evidence of that functionality is in the discoverable UI. > > > I can forgive the Alt to poweroff because poweroff is still exposed in > the login screen as a non-keyboard interaction option...so it's still > exposed as a pointing device only feature in the expected interaction > model of the overall system. But the screencaster utility isn't > exposed a a discoverable pointing device interaction in the UI itself > anywhere as far as I can tell..and that makes me marginally grumpy. > But not as grumpy as the choice to use a 4 finger salute to activate > it via the keyboard. If you want to ensure a 75% occurrence rate of > fat-finger execution error...require 4 simultaneous key presses. That's a pretty unique example. It's really not core desktop functionality; it's an easter egg, really. I think it was initially put in purely for the use of GNOME PR / documentation people, and left in because it wasn't hurting anything, and reviewers might like it. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
