** Changed in: gedit
Status: Invalid => Expired
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1015342
Title:
Tools/manage tools/shortcuts: More help while defining shortcuts
Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome:
Expired
Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
I enjoy much the possibility to define my own tools, and combine them
with shortcuts.
I admit that it wouldn't be wise to redefine the mosts often used ones
like Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V.
However, I often write programs in Scala or Java and like to compile
and run them by hotkeys.
I have ALT-j (java) and Ctrl-J (javac) defined, and would like to use
something for Scala, but Ctrl-S is already used for "Save".
The first problem with this is, that it isn't indicated, that the
keystroke is occupied by something else, it is even shown in the menu.
Since the keys are spread all over the menu, it is hard to find a free
one. I thought, that Ctrl-K would be a nice alternative, since K can
be pronounced like C in German in many cases, and "kompilieren" would
be easy to recognize. It's occupied too for "inKremental search" which
I rarely use, and so we approach the 3rd aspect of this problem: If I
could define an Image to be shown in the toolbar, or building a button
from words like "scalac", "scala", ..., the accessibility would be
much better.
Conclusion: I have 3 related feature-requests:
* inform the user, if a hotkey is occupied
* allow the user to overwrite hotkeys (ask for confirmation to avoid
accidentally overwriting popular commands, the user didn't think of)
* allow the user to define buttons for the toolbar - (by image, by words, by
both).
Thanks for your help. If you rewrite Gedit from Scratch in Java or
Scala, I would submit a patch. :)
Btw.: I'm still using Gedit 2.30.3 which came with XUbuntu 10.04, but
I consulted the List of changes since then, and found no related
entry. This is more a feature request/maybe usability bug.
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