| 2008-12-02 17:52:34 |
Ben Gamari |
bug |
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added bug |
| 2008-12-02 17:53:03 |
Ben Gamari |
bug |
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assigned to empathy |
| 2008-12-02 17:53:19 |
Ben Gamari |
bug |
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assigned to pidgin (Ubuntu) |
| 2008-12-02 17:53:46 |
Ben Gamari |
bug |
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assigned to gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) |
| 2008-12-02 17:54:00 |
Ben Gamari |
bug |
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assigned to xchat (Ubuntu) |
| 2008-12-02 18:00:47 |
Ben Gamari |
description |
The Ctrl-L keybinding to clear the conversation history in empathy is horribly annoying. At this point, most applications (most notably nautilus and gedit, but many 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.
Just to motivate this bug a little bit:
I have hit Ctrl-L accidentally countless times both out of finger-fatigue
and just carelessness. This requires 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. |
The Ctrl-L keybinding to clear the conversation history in empathy is horribly annoying. At this point, most applications (most notably nautilus and gedit, but many 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.
I have hit Ctrl-L accidentally countless times both out of finger-fatigue and just carelessness. This requires 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.
As a distribution which seeks to meet Apple's standard of overall desktop usability (especially for casual users), issues like these are going to need to be handled on a community-wide level (hence the various projects included on this bug). There are few ways to alienate new users faster than by putting legacy-driver keybindings with little applicability to every-day tasks in easy-to-hit positions.
Moreover, in this instance, the legacy argument hardly holds water. While in terminal applications Ctrl-L has historically redrawn the screen to recover from terminal corruption, this doesn't map onto the GUI environment. Having a clear key is certainly understandable, but putting it in a home-row position is just sloppy UI design. |
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| 2008-12-05 22:32:09 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
empathy: status |
New |
Triaged |
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| 2008-12-05 22:32:09 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
empathy: importance |
Undecided |
Low |
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| 2008-12-05 22:32:09 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
empathy: statusexplanation |
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| 2008-12-05 22:43:45 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
gnome-terminal: importance |
Undecided |
Low |
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| 2008-12-05 22:43:45 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
gnome-terminal: assignee |
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desktop-bugs |
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| 2008-12-05 22:43:45 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
gnome-terminal: statusexplanation |
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feel free to send this upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org for gnome-terminal also, thanks. |
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| 2009-01-07 07:41:02 |
Bug Watch Updater |
empathy: status |
Unknown |
Invalid |
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| 2009-02-12 18:14:27 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
empathy: status |
Invalid |
Unknown |
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| 2009-02-12 18:14:27 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
empathy: statusexplanation |
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| 2009-02-21 21:47:51 |
Luke Faraone |
gnome-terminal: status |
New |
Won't Fix |
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| 2009-02-21 21:47:51 |
Luke Faraone |
gnome-terminal: statusexplanation |
feel free to send this upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org for gnome-terminal also, thanks. |
Per your last paragraph, this is a won't fix gnome-terminal. |
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| 2009-02-21 21:50:13 |
Luke Faraone |
bug |
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added subscriber Mackenzie Morgan |
| 2009-03-10 01:04:40 |
Bug Watch Updater |
empathy: status |
Unknown |
Confirmed |
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| 2010-09-16 08:23:34 |
Bug Watch Updater |
empathy: importance |
Unknown |
Medium |
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| 2010-09-30 17:46:26 |
Dylan McCall |
bug |
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added subscriber Dylan McCall |
| 2011-04-29 18:05:59 |
Aryeh Gregor |
bug |
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added subscriber Aryeh Gregor |
| 2011-07-24 15:16:05 |
Launchpad Janitor |
pidgin (Ubuntu): status |
New |
Confirmed |
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| 2011-07-24 15:16:05 |
Launchpad Janitor |
xchat (Ubuntu): status |
New |
Confirmed |
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| 2011-11-07 01:18:57 |
Ian Nicholson |
bug |
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added subscriber Ian Nicholson |
| 2012-05-27 01:24:34 |
Matt Fischer |
xchat (Ubuntu): importance |
Undecided |
Wishlist |
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| 2013-02-25 01:25:21 |
Launchpad Janitor |
xchat (Ubuntu): status |
Confirmed |
Fix Released |
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| 2013-02-25 02:46:48 |
Launchpad Janitor |
branch linked |
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lp:ubuntu/xchat |
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| 2013-02-25 11:48:45 |
Aryeh Gregor |
removed subscriber Aryeh Gregor |
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| 2013-05-06 17:36:50 |
pd5rm |
bug |
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added subscriber pd5rm |
| 2013-05-13 06:11:13 |
Christian Weiske |
bug |
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added subscriber Christian Weiske |
| 2013-05-13 06:12:00 |
Christian Weiske |
bug task added |
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psiplus |
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| 2013-07-30 13:11:09 |
Launchpad Janitor |
branch linked |
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lp:ubuntu/saucy-proposed/xchat |
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| 2013-08-12 14:42:32 |
Mackenzie Morgan |
removed subscriber Mackenzie Morgan |
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| 2015-04-18 18:34:38 |
Luke Faraone |
pidgin (Ubuntu): status |
Confirmed |
Opinion |
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| 2015-04-18 18:35:07 |
Luke Faraone |
empathy (Ubuntu): status |
Triaged |
Opinion |
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| 2016-07-22 08:42:59 |
Bug Watch Updater |
empathy: status |
Confirmed |
Fix Released |
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