#3631 HIGH First D: Need fullscreen mode

[Bert Freudenberg]

Maybe Alt-Enter comes from Windows, I'm not sure. It's used by  
Parallels, too (or did I configure it that way?)

Anyway ... "full-screen" seems odd anyway because it just toggles the  
toolbar. How about Ctrl-T then?


- Bert -


On Sep 25, 2007, at 0:56 , Eben Eliason wrote:

> Well, some of our principles for keyboard shortcuts have been 1)
> treating CTRL-K as a primary shortcut for action A and ALT-K as a
> variation on that same action and 2) we've been trying to adhere to
> the (generally similar) shortcut paradigms present in Linux and OSX
> when possible.
>
> I'm not as familiar with Linux, but OSX frequently uses F for
> fullscreen.  Is ALT-ENTER  of Windows origin?
>
> On 9/24/07, Zarro Boogs per Child <bugtracker at laptop.org> wrote:
>> #3631: Need fullscreen mode
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>>   Reporter:  Eben         |       Owner:  erikos
>>       Type:  task         |      Status:  new
>>   Priority:  high         |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
>>  Component:  web browser  |     Version:
>> Resolution:               |    Keywords:
>>   Verified:  0            |
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>>
>> Comment(by bert):
>>
>>  Traditionally, Alt-Enter is used for toggling full-screen mode. I  
>> like
>>  that better than using up a valuable ctrl-key combo, which should  
>> be left
>>  to the activities. Etoys for one already uses all of them (if you  
>> disable
>>  the "novice mode" at least).