On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 02:07:38AM +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > On Apr 12, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> > http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/event-to-action-mapping-1/ > While this would allow easier customization for users, it might make > Gnome a misery for ISVs. They would use some keyboard combo for some > special function in their application, in the knowledge that it wasn't > one of the standard Gnome keyboard combos -- and then they'd get > support calls and complaints from people who had set that same combo to > do something else system-wide, just because Gnome had made that easy to > do. It's not meant to be GNOME-only (but would have quite an impact on any desktop environment). ISVs should use it too, once it would be around. > If this was implemented, it would need to be possible for the > Preferences windows of programs supporting this system to have a > "Keyboard Shortcuts..." button, which opened *that application's* > section of the system-wide Keyboard preferences window. Otherwise it > would be unreasonably difficult to find out how to customize the > application you were using right now. Good point, already on my list ;) -- Thorsten Wilms Thorwil's Design for Free Software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
