On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Martin Dengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:02:47PM -0400, Mikus Grinbergs wrote: > > Eben wrote: > > > I'm certainly all for removing alt-n and alt-p. We don't need > > > redundant shortcuts here, and alt-tab and alt-shift-tab will work fine > > > > I disagree with alt-n and alt-p not considered useful. Either can > > be done using TWO fingers. Needing three fingers for backwards-tab > > navigation is quite awkward for me. > > FWIW I agree with Eben/others that alt-n/p are too invasive (likely to > be used/desired by activity writers) and redundant to justify > overcoming the awkwardness that all the other major WMs have decided > isn't too much to force on users (the three fingered back-window > keyboard shortcut). > > > > [I don't actually care how you set the defaults -- I customize > > keyhandler.py on my XO for my own preferences anyway (and if that > > makes it more difficult for someone else to use my XO, I'd rather > > make things easier for me than avoid customization).] > > Can you suggest any ideas as to how we might be able to allow you to > do this more easily, without having to change keyhandler.py? The > naive, straw man would be a ~/.sugar/keybindingsrc (and corresponding > /etc/sugar-keybindingsrc) with ini file syntax... I'm interested in > making this customization easier.
Well, we (will) always have the control panel for cases where we think there is specific need for this. We could either a) include a way to remap keys for specific areas such as The Frame, or Speech, by allowing one to set individual shortcuts in their respective modules. Or, we could add a new module specifically for Shortcuts, which lays out all of the system-level shortcuts and allows configuration in one place. As an added bonus, we could later make this interface pluggable so that activities could register a list of shortcuts and actions (note, there may be more actions than shortcuts!) so that kids can optimize their experience if they really want to. > > > In general, I would say that it's silly to use basic shortcuts for > > > actions that have a dedicated button on the XO (rotate, frame) > > > > Whenever I'm at home, I plug an USB keyboard into my XO. It is not > > silly for me to assign an unused F-key to 'frame' - again, that is > > something that makes using the XO easier for me. > > This is another good use case justifying customization. > > > mikus > > Martin > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
