Keyboard

Common keyboard related settings.

Goals

• Set media keys.
• Set custom keyboard shortcuts.
• Blink speed settings?
• Key repeat settings?

Relevant Art

MAC

KDE

Windows 7

Windows 8

Discussion

Experimental Guidelines

Key repeat and blink speed settings have been tentatively excluded here.

Jon's original mockups

Keyboard Shortcut List

This probably needs to be updated.

Navigation:

• Move between applications
• Move between windows of an application
• Move workspace left
• Move workspace right
• Go to Activities Overview
• Focus the top menu bar

Screen Shots:

• Save a picture of screen
• Save a picture of window
• Save a picture of selected area
• ... to clipboard variants?

Sound and Media:

• Volume mute
• Volume up
• Volume down
• Play
• Pause
• Stop
• Previous
• Next
• Eject

Launchers:

• Launch Help
• Launch Web
• Launch Email
• Launch Media Player
• Launch File Browser?
• Display contextual launcher menu [see note]

[note: could show a menu offering something like: Search computer, Search web, Look up in dictionary, Look up in Wikipedia, etc]

System (or merge with launchers?):

• Lock screen
• Log out
• Switch user
• Run application

Universal Access:

• Turn zoom on or off
• Zoom in
• Zoom out
• High contrast on or off
• Increase text size
• Decrease text size
• Turn screen reader on or off

Windows:

• Fullscreen on or off
• Maximize on or off
• Close window
• Minimize window
• View split on left
• View split on right
• Move window to workspace left
• Move window to workspace right
• Raise window
• Lower window

See Also

Old design review (includes mockups)

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