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[nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The only conflict I've come across with Ctrl+Alt+left/right is in VLC. VLC has a feature where the user can jump five minutes ahead/back in a playing video by tapping Ctrl+Alt+right/left. But VLC's keyboard shortcut configuration dialog easily allows the user to change this combination to whatever they want. So not really a problem.

From: krnekhelesh@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:09:08 +0100
To: frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx
CC: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Is there a reason Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right/Up/Down	was disabled?

Hi all,

I propose that the keyboard shortcut be changed back to Ctrl + Alt + arrow keys since the new implementation Super + Shift + arrow keys sometimes displays the keyboard shortcut overlay or the dash when you try to switch workspaces. This can be fixed by modifying the delay time etc...but why change something which ain't broken. Ctrl + Alt + arrow has been used for a long time and is still in many distros. Considering this is a LTS, this change will break that behavior which is not recommended.



Nekhelesh

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:28 AM, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx <frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


AH.. now i see..i think it's better for blender3d users..



On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 05:42, Stephen Rees-Carter <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hi all,



Is there a reason Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right/Up/Down was disabled?



I realise that this combination has been switched over to the new

"Super+Shift+Left/Right/Up/Down" combination, but I don't understand

why the existing one was broken in the process.

The bug report requesting the change,

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/891757, says the

following:

    "However where there is no conflict between the existing keyboard

shortcuts and the new shortcuts, the existing shortcuts should always

be preserved."



Given that the Ctrl+Alt+Arrow combination has been around for years

and it works in every other distro I've ever used. I don't see how the

Ctrl+Alt+Arrow combination could be a conflict for any other function.

It seems like a stupid change which will annoy a lot of people,

particularly for an LTS...



There is a bug report about it:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/940085



It's also worth nothing, the new Super+Shift+Arrow combination is

broken for Super+Shift+Right for me:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/940803



Thanks,

~Stephen



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