Usability fixes
Reid Young
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I've bought several Propane licenses and my team is really enjoying them. I've got two minor but very important usability requests:
- Can Cmd+Shift+] and Cmd+Shift+[ tab between chat windows, ala Safari and Terminal? This comes naturally and would save me so much time.
- Can Cmd+W close popup windows? It's been very frustrating opening an uploaded file and then instinctively hitting Cmd+W to close it, only to have the window stay open and the chatroom close instead.
Thanks!
Support Staff 2 Posted by trevor on 08 Mar, 2010 09:31 AM
Hi Reid,
The defaults shortcut for switching between tabs is option-command left/right - which only goes to show that I've spent way too much time switching tabs in TextMate.
You can change any keyboard shortcut via System Preferences / Keyboard / Keyboard Shortcuts. The menu text is "Next Tab" and "Previous Tab".
As for the command-w issue - all windows actually do respond to command-w.
The problem is with the webview grabbing focus back again once I've opened a popup window.
The worst culprit has been clicking on images so for the image view window I also react to the escape key as a way to close the window. It's not the greatest solution but it's all I can offer until I can figure out how to convince webkit to stop messing with keyboard focus.
Regards, Trev
3 Posted by Reid Young on 08 Mar, 2010 09:44 AM
Ah, I had no clue I could type in commands manually like that. Awesome.
I see what you're saying re: the popup image windows (which is what I was referencing). I hadn't tried Esc yet, but I'll give that a shot in the meantime.
Thanks! I never thought I'd be willing to pay $20 to improve functionality that I get in a browser, but you've really done a great job with this app.
4 Posted by Michael Buffington on 21 Apr, 2010 05:32 PM
I'd second the request for adding cmd+shift+square brackets for window switching. It's far more common in tabbed apps (Terminal, Safari, Firefox, just to name a few) than Textmate's cmd+opt+arrows.
Yeah, you can go tweak it in System Preferences but it'd be nice to drop Propane on a new machine and just know it's going to respond to either without setup.