Re: [Denemo-devel] accelerators

[Richard Shann]

I've done some experimenting with this, and it turns out that the Gimp
style mechanism for changing accelerators also has bugs/features around
setting keypad-enter, tab etc etc.
So by itself it is not getting us a lot further - there is a difference
between what gets set by parsing in from a file and what you can set
pressing keys on the keyboard, and possibly interactions with locale
settings (?), in short a mess. 
Any experts around to comment?

Richard

On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 16:42 +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
> I happened to be using gimp the other day and I noticed it had a
> facility to change the accelerators of the menus dynamically. Unlike the
> one I've introduced into Denemo, you have to turn this on (a bit obscure
> that) and then it is (all too) easy to set, just hover over the menu and
> press the key.
> I set about tracking down the code for this, as it is always better to
> use established methods rather than some new interface, unless there is
> evidence to the contrary. I found out that in fact it is a gtk/glib
> built in facility. Thanks to Torsten Reuss I got this working and I
> think we should make use of it. Especially since some keypresses can't
> be set in the dialog that we have at present (Return, Tab etc).
> 
> One casualty will be keyboard shortcuts (that's the mechanism invoked by
> putting an underscore in the menu item name which means that when you
> have the menu displayed you can press that key: these take precedence
> over setting keyboard accelerators).
> 
> It would be annoying to find yourself setting accelerators accidentally,
> but we don't want to make it at all obscure, since Denemo really hinges
> on keyboard use. I haven't given it a great deal of thought yet, but
> besides having a menu item for turning this facility off and on we could
> add it to the current right-click mechanism; we will want to keep the
> right click mechanism for the help display it can offer.
> 
> comments?
> 
> Richard
> 
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