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1. Re: BUG: Changing text colours within a text block: Keyboard shortcuts problem (Photoshop CS5)
John Joslin Sep 23, 2010 4:33 AM (in response to Matt Hill UK)This is a User to User forum.
If you believe you have discovered a bug you should report it to Adobe.
See: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
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2. Re: BUG: Changing text colours within a text block: Keyboard shortcuts problem (Photoshop CS5)
Matt Hill UK Sep 23, 2010 4:35 AM (in response to John Joslin)Ooops, sorry, I didn't realise that. I'll report it there, thanks for the heads up.
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3. Re: BUG: Changing text colours within a text block: Keyboard shortcuts problem (Photoshop CS5)
Noel Carboni Sep 23, 2010 7:14 AM (in response to Matt Hill UK)For what it's worth, Ctrl-Backspace is kind of a "defacto standard" across applications for "delete previous word".
Perhaps Adobe is just adjusting their UI to be more integrated with the rest of the system and software world. While this particular change may be irritating to you, in general it's a good direction.
-Noel
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4. Re: BUG: Changing text colours within a text block: Keyboard shortcuts problem (Photoshop CS5)
Matt Hill UK Sep 23, 2010 7:38 AM (in response to Noel Carboni)I can see your reasoning, but I disagree with it.
Ctrl+Backspace and Alt+Backspace have been standard background/foreground shortcuts for years. Why go and change something that's worked perfectly well for the sake of some notion of OS standards?. I'd be more inclined to agree with your point if the CS Suite's user interface matched my OS and wasn't already arbitrary...
Making this one small keyboard shortcut change therefore seems arbitrary and odd.
I've reported it as a bug, I'd be interested to see if it's ever changed . In the meantime I'll have to unlearn a technique I've used for over 10 years...
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5. Re: BUG: Changing text colours within a text block: Keyboard shortcuts problem (Photoshop CS5)
Noel Carboni Sep 23, 2010 9:30 AM (in response to Matt Hill UK)I fully understand what you're saying, and while I'm all for compatibility, user interface change cannot be accomplished without, well, change.
Imagine, for example, that thousands of people could have reported that they couldn't delete the prior word with Ctrl-Backspace while using the T tool in Photoshop, while they could with every other application on their systems. Imagine that none of the users like you reported that they were happy with things the way they already are.
Perhaps the best approach in a situation like this would have been for Adobe to add a configuration option somewhere to allow individual users to make the choice. But EVEN THEN there's a push from the Marketing types to simplify the number of choices given to customers, probably because doing so reduces support costs (imagine, for example, someone brainlessly setting it to your flavor of Ctrl-Backspace, then calling support to complain that they can't delete the prior word as they have always been able to do). There are a lot of requests on this forum that read like "I must have changed a setting somewhere, but I'll be darned if I can find it."
Microsoft and Adobe have both moved lately in this direction (reducing choices and configurability), reportedly to "reduce the cognitive load" on presumably ever less intelligent users, with ill effects in many cases. Unfortunately, "you can have it any way you like so long as it's our way" seems to be the way of the future.
-Noel


