MVV wrote:Thany,
Many people are familiar with exactly such shortcuts since old DOS file managers like Norton Commander so it would be strange to change them just because displayed columns are in different order.
Strange?
Quite the opposite. I think it would be rather strange to change the order of the columns at some point, but not change the order of the corresponding shortcut keys.
In my mind, the shortcut keys map to a certain column *index*, not to column *name*. See the difference?
I mean, "F5" doesn't exactly scream "Date". But looking at the keyboard, F3-F6 are in a physical row, and so are the columns. So, mapping Ctrl+F3-F6 to a column index makes more sense than mapping them to a column name.
To examplify (is that a word?
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Ctrl+F3 -> column 1
Ctrl+F4 -> column 2
Ctrl+F5 -> column 3
Ctrl+F6 -> column 4
Whatever on earth those columns might be. Name, extension, size, date, comment, video width, camera model, it shouldn't matter. If I put video width & height on columns 3 and 4, I expect Ctrl+F5/F6 to map to those columns, but I suspect they don't.
Like I said, the keys on the keyboard are in a horizontal row, and so are the columns on screen. It just makes a lot of sense to map the shortcuts to column indexes. It makes sense to keep up a certain legacy, but then again, it doesn't make too much sense to keep legacy functionality just because "it always worked that way". I don't think it makes sense to cling to legacy that much.
Oh and I don't mean to be rude, but "thousands of people are used to it" would be a reason to never change the program *at all*, but look how awesome TC has become.
