ANN: midori version 0.0.21 released

Stephan Arts stephan at xfce.org
Tue Sep 2 11:16:05 CEST 2008


On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Christian Dywan <christian at twotoasts.de> wrote:
> Am Mon, 1 Sep 2008 06:42:05 +0200
> schrieb "Liviu Andronic" <landronimirc at gmail.com>:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>
>> wrote:
>> >> Might I suggest making this behave similar to the way it works in
>> >> Opera: <shift>+enter -- open in new tab
>> >> <ctrl>+<shift>+enter -- open in background tab?
>> >
>> > Now you could argue whether to go the Firefox or the Opera way.
>> > Firefox uses <Alt>Return. I wonder why not <Control>Return since
>> > <Control> is also used for opening links in a new tab (<Control>
>> > plus first mouse button).
>> >
>> Yeah, I thought clashes would arrive. On a personal level, I got much
>> used to the Opera bindings, hence I find these intuitive. Moreover,
>> here I would be unable to use <alt>+enter with a single hand, since
>> Linux or Xfce or some config file does not treat "alt gr" (right alt)
>> as a modifier key.
>
> Hey Liviu,
>
> in fact the decision for the modifier wasn't overly funded, ie. it was
> based on half a fozen people saying what they like.
>
> I would appreciate if you could file a bug about that and also mention
> the reason why Alt is impractical for you. Would you do that?
>
> http://www.twotoasts.de/bugs/index.php?do=details&task_id=11
>
> Then we can talk about modifying the key if deemed appropriate.
>
> You can also mention your enhancement suggestion to open a new tab in
> the background via a different modifier.
>
> Eventually it might be worth exploring if that hotkey should be
> configurable, which currently is not possible.

Could I propose you allow for configurable hot-keys?

>
> ciao,
>    Christian

-
Stephan



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