A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

[Martin Olsson]

Fergal Daly wrote:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290474
> 
> has been sitting unloved for over 2.5 years now. Notepad.exe still
> takes more care to preserve your hard work :(
> 
> So unless firefox becomes much more careful about user edits, it seems
> to me that using the same key for editing and for destroying your work
> is a really bad default setting, especially when it's so easy to
> accidentally switch between the 2 contexts,

To avoid unintentional data loss is a worthy goal but as you describe in 
the referenced bug report, the solution is not to block all keys that 
can cause data loss (doing so would in itself make firefox fundamentally 
less usable).

I think it's important to make new users feel at home in Ubuntu. 
Understanding their background and expectations in very important.

I think there is much much more to be done within this area, for 
instance if you install VLC on Ubuntu the SPACE and F keybindings don't 
work. That's another case where a lot of people will be used to pressing 
the SPACE key to pause and play their movie. It's unreasonable to expect 
users to just relearn everything that they have learned so far about 
computers, they just don't have time for it.



		Martin