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Re: Firefox 1.5 beta2 builds



On 10/15/05, Chahibi Youssef <chahibi at gmail dot com> wrote:

> For example, french had not done any innovation, they kept the same english
> configuration, Ctrl+A is "select all" in azerty, they didn't choose Ctrl+T
> for "Sélectionner tout" . It's a matter of usability and minimal efforts to
> solve the problem.
> As you can see, most shorcuts in english are in the left side, a Ctrl+Kaf that
> stands for Select all ,  will make an frequent action very hard.
> In addition, we should do the same as in arabic Mac OS and Windows. I don't
> use it, so I don't know what they did.
> I think that "having some 'weird' shortcuts like ctrl+ؤ " will make the arabic
> desktop more usable and will avoid us academic researches.

Yes, I agree. However, the French don't need to switch the keybord
layout in order to type Ctrl+A (nor do they have to care about AZERTY
or QWERTY keyboards): the shortcuts are already latin characters.
However, an Arabic user will have to type shortcuts in Arabic, so why
not set new/'logical' conventions from the start ?

Salam,

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Youcef Rahal