On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 05:42:51PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> Recently I find it annoying that hotkeys in menus can only be
> simple characters because of the menu item syntax, e.g.
>
> + &FvwmConsole ToggleFvwmConsole
> ^^^
>
> I'd like to extend the hotkey logic so that it also works with
> moulti character key names like "f1" and possibly sequences like
> "ctrl-shift-space". The code to allow this whoould be mostly
> there already, so the question of syntax remains.
>
> One option would be to somehow extend the existing syntax to allow
> longer key sequences, e.g.
>
> + FvwmConsole &(f1) ...
>
> (resulting in "FvwmConsole _f1_"), which might break existing
> menus. ANother option might be to add a separate hotkey menu
> command, e.g.
>
> + FvwmConsole (f1) ...
> AddMenuItemHotKey f1
>
> The hotkey would be merged into the previously defined menu item.
> I cannot say that either option looks good to me. Can anybody
> think of a cleaner or more natural way to define hotkeys, possibly
> recuycling the syntax of the "Key" command?
Another idea might be to simply allow keys when a menu is open to act like
a typeahead search; the more keys you press, the closer to match you get,
and at each stage, matched items are highlighted in the menu, etc.
-- Thomas Adam
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