On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 8:52 PM Johannes Sixt <j...@kdbg.org> wrote:
>
> Am 04.09.19 um 19:46 schrieb Pratyush Yadav:
> > On 04/09/19 08:24AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> >> That is worth a try. The check box title offers a natural hotkey then:
> >> "_A_mend last commit", Alt-a.
> >
> > Right now, the binding proposed is Ctrl-e.  My mental model for the key
> > bindings as of now is having the "actions" bound to Ctrl, and bindings
> > that move you around in the UI bound to Alt.  So it makes more sense to
> > me to have a "amend toggle" bound to Ctrl.  Maybe that's just me though.
> > Anyone else care to chime in?
>
> "Amend last commit" is NOT an action. It switches a state.
>
> It is common in Windows GUIs that every control, including menu items,
> has a hotkey associated, the underlined letter in the caption, and the
> hotkey to access that UI control is Alt+that letter. It's not
> necessarily a matter of moving around.
>
> And, BTW, this hotkey thing is also the case on my Linux desktop
> (KDE-based).
>
> But of course, git-gui is different and totally off track here. It has
> *zero* controls marked for hotkey-accessibility. I was just hoping to
> spark an effort to make some of the controls marked and hotkey-accessible.

I'm in favor of making this a checkbox, also in the menu. As all menu
entries have currently a CTRL+ binding assigned, I think this one
should have one too. As CTRL+A is taken, and the proposal is CTRL+E, I
would be fine with this. If the menus and the UX elements also honors
mnemonic now or in the future, I don't think they need to match the
CTRL+ binding. Thus if this gets Alt+A I'm fine with this too.

Bert

>
> -- Hannes

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