Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> David Kågedal kirjoitti (7.4.2008 klo 9.38):
> > "Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > Anyone else got any opinions on an appropriate shortcut? How about
> > > '=' and '-' (+ and - without the shift), or are those not
> > > necessarily together either? (Are there really layouts where '['
> > > and ']' aren't next to each other?)
> >
> > A Swedish keyboard has [] on alt-gr (Modeshift) 8 and 9. Plus and
> > minus are unshifted and = is on shift-0.
> >
> > So with a Swedish layout, it is annoying when zoom in is on = rather
> > than +, just because someone assumed that it would be harder to press
> > the more logical plus key.
>
> The above also applies to Finnish and Norwegian keyboards, probably to
> many more. The key pair '=' and '-' would be a poor UI decision. In
> principle one should never assume that a key is in certain place in the
> keyboard; it's much better idea to be logical with _characters_. So if
> a key pair much be defined for different aspects of the same
> functionality, let's choose logical pairs from common characters: +- []
> {} () <> zZ aA bB ... (To me all these are OK.)
Well, Ctrl-+ and Ctrl-= are bound to the same action (increase
context), and Ctrl-- is bound to the opposite action (decrease
context). So Swedish folks should be able to use Ctrl-+ and
be happy.
Except it doesn't show in the menubar as being a possible keyboard
driven action. That was in the original patch, but I took it out
to enable the accelator to draw on Mac OS X.
--
Shawn.
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