Space Bar and Active Resource

Hi Kenneth, I think your comment about no way to visually discern the active window goes to the concern many have expressed in the general "blandness" of the color scheme and the need for greater contrast for those with again or bad eyesight... like me :-)

Hi Kenneth, I think your comment about no way to visually discern the active window goes to the concern many have expressed in the general "blandness" of the color scheme and the need for greater contrast for those with again or bad eyesight... like me :-)

I think in Phil G.'s opening thread he mentioned that visual enhancements are coming before the final release.

Thanks Melissa. Good to know. Any news on the active window identification?

I have passed that along too, with your extra request I think we can push this into the release...

As I have had more time to use L4 to read, I would like to request even more strongly that the Space bar come back to scroll active resources. With taking 2 hands to scoll down (1 to push Fn and the other to push "down"), I can never just sit back, hold a pen, prop my head, etc. and read. I am constantly needing to adjust to hit the two keys then keep reading. PLEASE bring back the space bar scrolling.

(Along those lines, it seems many of the keyboard shortcuts of L3 are missing in L4. I am thinking they may just be holding off adding keyboard shortcuts until they get the program more nailed down. Those are an easy last minute addition that will be a hassle to change as they make adjustments to the program.)

The down arrow scrolls one line at a time. The space bar would jump
a whole screen of text at a time (like Pg-down does now). You could just hit it once and read
for a while, then hit it again. With the down
arrow you need to keep hitting it (or hold it down) to scroll one line
at a time.

Basically, the request is just to have the space bar do what Pg-down now does.

the space bar is better since:

1. Some netbook computers have small keyboards and require hitting a function key in addition to pg-down.

2.
It is at the bottom of all keyboards, which makes it
easier to hit than the Pg-down button which is sometimes near the top
of the keyboard. (Good when sitting back to just read)

As a funny side note, I have flipped my screen upside down several times a day with  the scroll down as it is. The first time really freaked me out since I didn't know what I had done or how to fix it. (I also learned a new "feature" of windows.)

I have to hit Fn + down to scoll.  My fingers aren't used to hitting Fn, so they go to Ctrl+Alt instead (force of habit). I learned that Ctrl+Alt+Down, flips your screen upside down (try doing that to your family sometime and see how they respond).

Rob

Melissa,

Can you suggest that being able to use the up-down area of the mousepad be included? I'm finding that all of the "hit" marks on the side of the scroll bar for frequently used resources are interfering with my ability to use my laptop mousepad area effectively.