ANN: ristretto version 0.0.7 released

Grant McWilliams grantmasterflash at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 18:36:06 CEST 2007


On 10/1/07, Mişu Moldovan <dumol at gnome.ro> wrote:
>
> "Liviu Andronic" <landronimirc at gmail.com> a scris:
> > On 9/30/07, mmassonnet at gmail.com <mmassonnet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > You already have SPACE and BACKSPACE, why another way?
> >
> > BACKSPACE is somewhat counter-intuitive. Although it does suggest a
> > certain "backwards movement", it also represents the delete process.
> > Another issue is that SPACE and BACKSPACE are relatively far away from
> > each other, when contrasted with the arrow keys, for example.
>
> Then how come that in Thunar, the Xfce file manager, Backspace is bound
> to hhmmm, going back? Nevermind that all GTK+ image viewer apps that I
> know (GQview, GThumb and Eog) use the "Backspace"/"Space" AND
> "PageUp"/"PageDown" paradigms for moving back and forth from image to
> image in a directory...
>
> --
> mişu
>

popular != intuitive, look at Windows and arguably GNOME as well.

Grant
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