On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
For more 'advanced' users, the keyboard shortcuts are there,
and you're
probably going to want to use them if you don't want to gnaw your own
legs off out of boredom. No, they're not particularly discoverable: it's
very difficult to design an interface which makes keyboard shortcuts
discoverable without pissing you off once you know them. I mean, when
have keyboard shortcuts ever been discoverable? Is alt-tab discoverable?
Is alt-f4? No. We just pick them up somewhere and learn them.
is everything that gnome shell can do exposed as a non-keyboard
interactions? Can you describe to me how I get the screencasting
utility to start and stop recording without using a keyboard shortcut?
There's no evidence of that functionality is in the discoverable UI.
I can forgive the Alt to poweroff because poweroff is still exposed in
the login screen as a non-keyboard interaction option...so it's still
exposed as a pointing device only feature in the expected interaction
model of the overall system. But the screencaster utility isn't
exposed a a discoverable pointing device interaction in the UI itself
anywhere as far as I can tell..and that makes me marginally grumpy.
But not as grumpy as the choice to use a 4 finger salute to activate
it via the keyboard. If you want to ensure a 75% occurrence rate of
fat-finger execution error...require 4 simultaneous key presses.
-jef