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Bug 563004 - Change Ctrl-L keybinding
Change Ctrl-L keybinding
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 550885
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: Chat
unspecified
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-12-02 17:23 UTC by Ben Gamari
Modified: 2008-12-26 13:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description Ben Gamari 2008-12-02 17:23:18 UTC 
The Ctrl-L keybinding to clear the conversation history is horribly annoying. At this point, most applications (most notably nautilus, but others as well) have followed the lead of Firefox to use Ctrl-L to present a "Go to location" UI. It is remarkably annoying when you press Ctrl-L expecting this and yet your current conversation is cleared due to empathy accidentally still having focus. Moreover, "L" is on the home-row of most keyboard layouts, thereby making it extremely easy to hit accidentally.

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Comment 1 Ben Gamari 2008-12-02 17:25:10 UTC 
It has been suggested that fixing #443884 might make changing this keybinding a little more bearable for some users used to Ctrl-L.
Comment 2 Marco Barisione 2008-12-02 17:39:36 UTC 
On the other hand CTRL-L is what every program that has the same functionality uses. If hitting CTRL-L by mistake is a problem the shortcut can be overridden just moving on the menu item and choosing the new one (or backspace to delete it).
Comment 3 Ben Gamari 2008-12-02 17:42:33 UTC 
Just to motivate this bug a little bit:
int0x0c: I have hit Ctrl-L accidentally countless times, requiring me to interrupt my thought, go up to the menu, open the log window, find the log, restore my previous mental state, and then keep two windows open until I'm finished referring to the conversation history. From a desktop usability standpoint, that's a pretty destructive operation for a home-row keybinding.
Comment 4 Ben Gamari 2008-12-02 18:02:41 UTC 
I just opened a Launchpad bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xchat/+bug/304477) to see what the Ubuntu folks have to say about this.
Comment 5 Frederic Peters 2008-12-26 13:35:08 UTC 
Bug 550885 is the same issue ("From time to time, I accidentally hit Ctrl-L, which clears my scrollback.")


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 550885 ***