[haiku-development] Re: ShowImage patch

  • From: Christian Packmann <Christian.Packmann@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:12:09 +0100

Axel Dörfler schrieb:
Christian Packmann <Christian.Packmann@xxxxxx> wrote:
Alt+Return: toggle fullscreen (learned behavior from some Windows programs - maybe other platforms, too?)

If you do that, make sure all possibly full screen apps use the same shortcut. There is little I dislike more about UIs than inconsistency.

I agree with you, but fullscreen toggling is a problem class of its own. There are too many "standards" for it:
- mouse double-click on the window (VLC, I think)
- Alt+Enter
- F11 (browsers)
- Alt+F (also used on Macs, I think - Quicktime/Windows has it as Ctrl+F)

I don't think that any single standard behavior can be established for this; you either break consistency across applications, or consistency across platforms for multi-platform projects like web browsers. Both are bad.

So I'd really prefer implementing several ways of toggling full-screen at least for media apps; this is also an issue of not disappointing a user who may be used to some specific way from his former computing experiences.

It's a good question if Haiku should support all options as standard, or only a few. I think that at least mouse double-click would be another good candidate (for media apps). F11 is debatable, I'm used to it from Windows (where e.g. XnView uses it), but this may be really my own taste - waiting for comments on that.

Once we have a set of agreed-on standard shortcuts, I'll see that I implement them in ShowImage (and Mediaplayer if doable, otherwise file ticket). This also needs to be documented in the HIG, of course.

Christian

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