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

[Gary C Martin]

On 21 Aug 2009, at 14:52, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:

>
> 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...

+1!

Regards,
--Gary