[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6339) gtk2.0 client / 1.14.1beta: please re-add the 'buy' button on the overview screen

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, John Wheeler wrote:

>
> [bhudson - Thu Oct  2 14:12:17 2003]:
> > And I like dragging worklist items around the worklist,
> > although clicking the 'up' button wasn't a big chore before.
>
> I ***HATE*** dragging items around the worklist; you have to get it in
> precisely the right spot to work.  Since I have problems with tremors,
> such fine mouse control is often very difficult and time consuming for
> me.
>
> I really miss the editing key shortcuts for working with worklists;
> all the keys you needed were in one cluster (Insert/Delete to
> add/subtract items, Home/End to switch to worklist/available
> production, and PageUp/PageDown to move items up and down).

Insert/Delete still work. I did not keep PageUp/PageDown for the simple
reason those keys are already used for something else: scrolling up and
down one page of the list. Same thing for Home/End.

Use Alt+Up/Down instead of PageUp/PageDown.

We should not change the default GTK+ 2.0 keybindings to something else
if we can help it. People like to be able to use the same keybindings
across programs. Each program defining the keyboard shortcuts its own
way is one of the things that annoy me in Linux. UIs should be consistent.

> Mind you, I'm not saying that there shouldn't be the drag-and-drop
> interface.  One principle I use from my own programming is that if at
> all possible, one should be able to use a program both entirely with
> the mouse and entirely with the keyboard.

It is possible. Only thing is the keybindings changed and the
documentation hasn't been updated.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa