Timwi wrote:
Brion Vibber wrote:
I already provided a list of keys to avoid. Why don't you see what's left and make some recommendations from that that you'd like?
Gabriel and I were already struggling to assign access keys in a sensible manner, and many of them already turned out unintuitive (e.g. Special Pages = Q, because S and P were already assigned to the Save and Preview buttons on Edit screens, or Random Page = X, because R was already assigned to Recent Changes). Some were already required to be special characters (e.g. My User Page = .).
Taking more letters of the alphabet away from us is only going to make this even worse. We're going to inflict shortcuts like "-", "'", "/", "=", "[", etc. upon everybody, just so that some people can have their "select all".
It's not necessary to assign a key to every conceivable function! Overriding browser functionality, however, is never ever acceptable. I'm sorry if this seems awkward to you, but I assure you it's a lot more awkward to have the computer to unexpected things in response to standard keystrokes.
No conflicting access keys will be kept.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)