[kepler-dev] [Bug 2110] - Rename "Look Inside" to "Open Actor"

[Laura L. Downey]

Okay now LOL... is this my Christmas present to have every single shortcut
debated this week? ;-)

Obviously different people will have varying preferences but my goal here
was to maintain some consistency where possible and provide easy
associations.  So, where common commands (found in several applications)
were used, I tried to maintain the standard shortcuts.  But if a common
command wasn't used, then that shortcut combo was free to be used in other
places and if it made sense (the letter was in the command), I used it.

As to F11 etc, I was not mixing keyboard shortcuts with function key usage.


Laura L. Downey
Senior Usability Engineer
LTER Network Office
Department of Biology, MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131-0001
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ldowney at lternet.edu
 

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Subject: [Bug 2110] - Rename "Look Inside" to "Open Actor"

http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2110





------- Additional Comments From cxh at eecs.berkeley.edu  2005-12-19 12:06
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Personally, I like having Zoom Reset be Ctrl+= because Zoom In is actually
Ctrl+Shift-+, and + and = are the same key.
I can see why Ctrl+m would be a good choice though because Ctrl-m is 
usually carriage return and in effect we are returning the Zoom to what it
was.

As an experiment, I've modified BasicGraphFrame so that we now use Ctrl-m.

I think I'd like to keep Cntrl-F being bring to front.
I agree with Shawn in that full screen is not often used.  I've also seen
users accidentally put programs in to full screen mode and get totally
flustered, so I think the full screen mode should not have a keyboard
shortcut.

Laura wrote:

> For Kepler, I've proposed:
>
> Zoom Reset  Ctrl+M
> Zoom In Ctrl++
> Zoom Out Ctrl+-
> Zoom Fit (no shortcut proposed)
> Full Screen Ctrl+F
> Automate Layout Ctrl+T
>
> So, the ctrl++ and ctrl+- are good for zoom in and zoom out.
>

> As a side note, I've proposed some variations upon the original
> Ptolemy menus for Kepler and therefore some variations on the
> mnemonics and shortcuts followed in terms of trying to get
> everything coordinated.  For menus, I was trying to give a more
> standard set of menu items grouped like users would expect in terms
> of using other desktop applications.

>  And I've added some standard menu items and some convenience
> functions like Close, Close All, list of most recently opened
> workflows, and a Windows menu to more easily navigate between
> several workflows open at a time, and also menu items that pertain
> to functionality that Kepler is adding e.g., to support semantic
> annotation.
>
> For reference:
> http://kepler-project.org/Wiki.jsp?page=MenuAndToolBarReDesign
>
> So because of this I had to re-organize the mnemonics and shortcuts
> and it was quite a task to walk through every single item (which it
> sounds like Edward did in the original Ptolemy also) and make sure I
> was using the standards like ctrl+0 for open, and assigning
> meaningful shortcuts (trying to use a letter within menu item it is
> associated with).

Edward wrote:

> The current bindings in Ptolemy II are:
>
> Zoom Reset  Ctrl+=
> Zoom In Ctrl++
> Zoom Out Ctrl+-
> Zoom Fit Ctrl+_  (Ctrl-Shift--)
> Full Screen no binding
> Automate Layout Ctrl+T
>
> Note that I would not use Ctrl+F for Full Screen...
> It is currently bound to "bring to front", which is a fairly common
> choice in graphics software, and is far more commonly needed than
> Full Screen.

Shawn wrote:

> In addition to Edward's comments ... control-f is commonly
> used in web browsers and other apps to mean "find". (Note, I'm
> assuming you mean a lower-case 'f' here).  Note that a find
> command for a workflow (e.g., to find all occurrences of an
> actor, possibly nested many layers down) would be really useful,
> and in my opinion ctrl+f should be reserved for this functionality.
>
> I've only a couple of times used full-screen in Kepler -- mainly
> to see what it does.  I doubt it will be used often.  The one
> application where I do use full screen a bunch is in Adobe Acrobat,
> where ctrl+l is used (... why this binding is used, I'm not sure)