On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 17:23 +0100, guenther wrote: > > Note that you can get an apostrophe rather than an accent by hitting > > single-quote+space. My fingers do this by muscle-memory (I have an > > apostrophe in my surname :-) > > Isn't this a common char in English? Just like the forth char in this > paragraph? ;)
No, it's the fourth char :-) > I can't believe the English keyboard layout needs a Space after this. I > don't need a Space to get the apostrophe appear using a German keyboard > layout. (Neither do I need the Space for a backtick.) The keyboard doesn't, but when typing in a "dead-key" mode it does. That's what dead keys are all about. > > This seems to be screwed anyway. The menu and the accelerator definition > (see below) sets "grave" (which should be the backtick or backquote, > right?) -- whereas we are talking about a single quote here... > > > > On a related note, I haven't found any way to type Ctrl-` (control- > > backquote), the accelerator for Preview Pane in Evo. Hints would be > > appreciated. > > There is another accelerator for View / Preview Pane that works for me > (German keyboard layout). In addition to Ctrl-grave, Ctrl-hash works for > me (hash is on the same key as the single quote on German keyboards, > just without the Shift modifier). No, doesn't work for me (the # is above the 3 on US keyboards. I also tried Ctrl-" (the ' is above ") but no luck. > > Now to the actual "hint" part, as you requested. ;) > > You can change accelerators (and a lot more) in a bunch of XML files. > You need to be root (more precisely, the one who installed Evolution). > > The View / Preview Pane accelerator is defined in your > $prefix/share/evolution/2.0/ui/evolution-mail-global.xml file. It's this > chunk: > > <cmd name="ViewPreview" > _tip="Show message preview window" > accel="*Control*grave" > type="toggle"/> > > Change the accel attribute to suite your needs and keyboard. I'll try that, thanks. poc _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
