[sugar] alt-tabbing to the Journal
Mikus Grinbergs
mikus
Fri Sep 26 10:07:20 EDT 2008
> Task switching by alt-tab seems pretty quick to me. Thinking about and
> finding a different key to get Journal when you want it seems harder
> than tabbing past it when you don't.
I agree about "seems harder" when one has to switch from using the
keyboard to using the pointer. But to me using the Journal key is
*not* "harder" than using alt-tab.
I myself don't do any "hard thinking" about how to get to another
screen. If I want to go to *system facilities*, I use dedicated
keys to call them up; if I want to interact with "where I'm doing
my work", I use alt-tab to reach those screens.
> My basic view is that the frame, dedicated keys and alt-tabbing are all
> designed to give the same sort of functionality that we have in
> multi-window systems of easily cutting and pasting between activities,
> rolling through the running activities, and starting new ones when
> needed. As such, I think that the more capability that's exposed with
> alt-tabbing the better.
My view is that alt-tabbing should be restricted to Activities.
I'm not familiar with the MacOS finder - but I prefer to maintain a
mental distinction between going to: "what I am working with", and
going to: "the system". When I use alt-tab for the former (which I
do often), I *don't* want my progress cluttered up with system data.
I use the latter much more rarely (e.g., to launch an Activity), and
am willing to then use keys other than alt-tab.
mikus
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