On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 21:34, Peter Williams wrote: > * It encourages us to work on a truly good set of keybindings instead > of leaving it up to the user > * It makes it easier for documenters, testers, and bug reporters > * There would be major technical problems getting this to work right > when several Bonobo components are merging menus (you could bind one key > to multiple commands, etc) > > Basically, the concensus was that binding keys at will was a pretty neat > feature, but the benefit that it gives is not really great enough to > make it necessary. In my view it's a slightly unusual manifestation of > the configuritis problem that many Linux apps have -- far too many > options (cf Sawfish control center applets). > > That being said, you can change keybindings if you want by editing > Evolution's Bonobo UI XML files, but that's not really a recommended > practice. > > And, going back to the first point above, we should improve our keyboard > support; there are definitely still problems.
I see, thank you for the informative response. Is it pretty much settled then that evolution/bonobo apps will not allow the user any control over keybindings? Or is there some other officially approved scheme? Personally, I think the menu-binding way is the best one I've seen so far, and for instance better than the current way bindings are configured in the composer/GtkHtml. -- Ben Escoto
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