Re: [Denemo-devel] Major overhaul of shortcut mechanism

[Richard Shann]

This is a locale problem. The immediate fix is to use the invariant (and
rather verbose) names instead. It will be possible to create the labels
showing the nicer locale dependent names, but I will work on the
underlying keybindings now.
Richard

On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 15:55 +0200, Nils Gey wrote:
> Something has gone wrong. 
> Denemo compiled from new git checkout and without any .denemo present refuses 
> to accept the basic shortcuts like navigation keys, shift+left/right to 
> create a selection or even delete and backspace.
> 
> Nils
> 
> On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:19:33 +0100
> Richard Shann <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I have made a major overhaul of the shortcut naming mechanism. Many old
> > shortcut names are now invalid.
> > Default.shortcuts gives the proposed standard set. The Composer ones I
> > have not altered at all.
> > 
> > The basic mechanism is
> > 
> >     a, b, c  for the standard append/edit note
> >     A, B, C for the Insert note after cursor, this is the Shift key or caps
> > lock.
> > 
> >     0, 1, 2 for the standard append/insert duration
> >     Shift with 0, 1, 2 for the Edit duration of note at cursor and again
> > the caps lock can be used for these (sic!!!)
> > 
> > either the numeric keypad or the top row number keys can be used.
> > 
> > The older mechanism should still work if you set the strict_shortcuts to
> > be TRUE.
> > There is also an alternative naming system, controlled by a preference
> > verboseshortcuts which is not currently settable outside the program I
> > think - it uses the gdk names for the keys (that is e.g. comma for ,
> > etc)
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > 
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