GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 328783
shift + ctrl + T should not toggle hide/show toolbar
Last modified: 2006-08-06 01:02:37 UTC
I use a small keyboard. Very often I will want to open a tab to go to a new site. I hit ctrl + t to do this. Since my keyboard is small very often I accidently lean on to the shift as well and before I know it my toolbar is missing. The first time this happened I didn't know what I just did, and though I stumbled on a bug. Upon further inspection I realized this was a feature. I can understand if somoene wants to hide the toolbar, but I don't think it should be a keyboard shortcut. This isn't the kind of option you are changing frequently. I looked at Gedit, and it has an option to hide the toolbar but it isn't linked to a keyboard shortcut, so why should epiphany? I looked at the HIG here http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/toolbars-controlling-display.html it mentions allowing hides, but doesn't say to include a keyboard shortcut. I find it does more harm then good. Other information: This is using epiphany 1.8.2
Thanks for your bug report. I can see how this shortcut could pose a problem. As a workaround, enable Editable menu accelerators in the GNOME menu and toolbar preferences; then highlight the Toolbar menu item in the View menu and press your desired shortcut, or Backspace if you just want to delete it. Note: evince is also using this keyboard shortcut.
harves, how about using a different shortcut? Ctrl+K doesn't seem to be in use yet... We could reserve the Ctrl+Shift+char shortcuts for those cases where we want the reverse action of what Ctrl+char would have done.
Ctrl+K is used by FireFox for going to the google search box, it might be confusing for people changing if that toggles a toolbar instead.
*** Bug 340176 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
How about Ctrl+J? There aren't much free combinations left...
Any objections to Ctrl+J? This can't be more than a trivial fix.
How about not using any shortcut?
I also feel no shortcut is the best solution. This doesn't seem like something users are toggling often so what is the point of a shortcut key if it only confuses people.
OK with me.
> How about Ctrl+J? There aren't much free combinations left... Ctrl+J is used in Firefox to show the Download manager. > This isn't the kind of option you are changing frequently. Toolbars are not something you _should_ need to toggle frequently (and for most users I expect toggling Fullscreen mode is a reasonable enough workaround to achieve similar results of temporarily getting rid of the toolbars). > How about not using any shortcut? No shortcut seems like the best default in this case. Ctrl+t for new tab seems like a very frequently used shortcut and all too easy to trigger this one accidentally. Also the workaround suggested above to clear a shortcut should work to add one in if a user feels they really needs to add a shortcut back in. > Note: evince is also using this keyboard shortcut. I'll bet* Evince used Epiphany as an excuse for adding that shortcut * no actual cash money
I removed the accel. Someone please file a bug for evince to do the same.
Done, bug 350110