Bug#343244: GTK frontend shortcuts should be documented
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-----Original Message-----
From: Attilio Fiandrotti [mailto:fiandro@tiscalinet.it]
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 4:03 PM
To: debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org
Cc: Debian Install System Team
Subject: Bug#343244: GTK frontend shortcuts should be documented
Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb
Severity: wishlist
The GTK frontend allows many keyboard shortcuts, some of the are in common
with the classical NEWT frontend
<ENTER> goes forward
<ESC> goes back
<SBACE> activates a button
<TAB> navigates between items
and some are new
<-> collapses a tree
<+> expands a tree
<STAMP> takes a screenshot
and to switch to VTn the user has now to press SHIFT+ALT+Fn instead of
ALT+Fn.
Those shortcuts should be documented in the debian-installer manual, i
suppose, and also inside th GTK frontend itself.
A so much long list of shortcuts would not easily fit inside the GTK
frontend's main screen, so it was proposed [1] that a button should be added
to the GTK frontend.
When the button is clicked a small modal popup window should appear, listing
all available shortcuts for the GTK frontend.
This will require adding a "debconf/gtk_shortcuts_button" string to
debconf's database to contain the button's label and a
"debconf/gtk_shortcuts_help" to contain the multiline text that has to be
displayed inside the popup window.
I think the abilty to take screenshots is what it's most worth documenting
the GTK frontend's shortcuts: this could help a lot in reporting issues
related to bad rendering of complex / non latin fonts.
Attilio Fiandrotti
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg00315.html
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