[Sugar-devel] Accelerators: make Journal 'F5'

[Christian Marc Schmidt]

On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> On 21 Aug 2009, at 10:58, Simon Schampijer wrote:
>
>> finally I pushed today the accelerators for the views. This means  
>> that the palettes of the zoom options in the frame show now:  
>> Neighbrhood F1 etc (see screenshot below).
>
> Fab! :-)
>
>> As most of the keyboards does not have a search key, should we make  
>> the Journal 'F5' ? This would be logic from the F(N) we have in the  
>> frame.
>
> I would love Journal to be on F5, but might be controversial: It  
> would not be ideal for XO HW keyboard layout; HoboPrimate will  
> likely bite you several times; it would clash with a key used by  
> Develop Activity (not that I use it); maybe clash with another  
> Activity (but none that I'm aware of)?
>
> But FWIW, a selfish +1 from me at least ;-)
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> P.S. Oh if only Journal wasn't treated by the UI as an activity, but  
> part of the shell. You could then just tap F4 and F5 to toggle back  
> and forth between your current activity view, and the Journal. Oh  
> the bliss. ;-b

That should be possible, even in the current configuration, no?  
Hitting F5 would switch immediately to the journal, while F4 toggles  
through all activities (including journal). Seems like a good solution  
to me...

Christian