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Re: super+n+up/down/home to rearrange launcher icons.

 

Den 28. sep. 2011 11:24, skrev Stefanos A.:


I just tried and the Launcher currently activates on key press, not release. Super+2 activates without releasing the key.

Yes, and that would have to be changed.

Change the key press to key release would indeed introduce an unacceptable delay. I have already filed bugs on Unity for things that are activated on release rather than press, like the BFB (now Dash button - it's not movable so there's absolutely no reason to activate on release). These things make Unity feel slow, even though it isn't. Gratuitously introduce more delays is not the way to go.

Unacceptable delay? I estimate a delay of about 20ms. Perhaps you've misunderstood something?

Especially since you can add a different shortcut for reordering, such as Shift+Super, and keep *both* actions on key press. In fact, that's how the workspace switcher works: Control+Alt is activated on key down, as is Shift+Control+Alt. Simple, symmetrical and no additional delays.

It would never make sense to cancel those events. That's something that's been bugging me about Gnome for many years, that if you clicked the wrong menu entry, then it was not possible to cancel it. You would have to run that application, close it, open the menu and then start the right application. If the action was initiated on release, then you could've simply pressed esc to cancel. It's seriously annoying to be unable to cancel launching LibreOffice because I hit 5 instead of 4. I should be able to hit esc before I release and prevent it.
(Interesting anecdote: many reviewers commented that Office 2007 was much faster than Office 2003 because its right-click menu activates on mouse down and not mouse up. This was actually made a big deal back then! I'm bringing this up to highlight that this is not a non-issue - there is measurable speed difference that affects user satisfaction).

I am unable to verify that claim, but I've been told that many people gets kidnapped by aliens too. Those kinds of unsubstantiated claims carry very little weight with me. But you're talking about consistency? When you use the mouse, then the entries are not activated by press, but by release, and only if you don't press and hold for long periods of time, like more than one second. When you use the keyboard, it is opposite. Why is that a good idea?

In any event, I realized that it would be better to hold shift in alt+f1 to move entries up and down.

Jo-Erlend Schinstad



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