On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 05:14:38PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 08:35:05AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > [cut] > > > > I belive there is little point in asking such questions: you will get > > > as many different answers as the number of people who provide an > > > answer... > > > > There is a purely technical aspects to this question: > > > > conflict with hotkey assignments commonly used by other tools. > > > > There is still point in discussing this. > > Well, any hotkey that is not a combination of four or five keys has > already been used in one of the applications that some of your > potential users consider "a fundamental tool" for their > productivity. Just to make a few examples: GIMP, Inkscape, Vim, Emacs, > etc. > > If we take also into account that little thing called "personal > preferences" and those two big monsters named "habit" and "laziness", > you will recknon that there is little point in discussing which > default hotkeys one should use for this and that. Anybody you ask will > name "the best" set of hotkeys... > > The first thing I do in a new unix installation is getting wmaker and > then copying the GNUStep directory and the .emacs file I have > "accumulated" in my unix lifetime, so for me there is no point at all > in discussing hot-keys for xfce or for another application: mine are > the best (for me). > > > > > One way to minimize this is to have one hotkey to access a menu for > > all the different functions proposed for hotkeys, and for one of the > > menu items to be to configure hotkeys. > > > > I think this is a very bad idea. A hot-key is useful if you don't have > to think about it or to select it from a list, if you can use it > blindfolded, without looking at the keyboard or the screen, and if in > the end it becomes like a thin glove which you don't feel you are > wearing or use. The rest is just cluttering the interface without > profit, IMHO.
Exactly. And everyone will have his own preferences, and so you want to have an easy-to-find confgurator so he can do it before he's had to use the for-him-wrong interface very much. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
