On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 11:38 -0400, mental@...3... wrote:
Quoting bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...>:
On 6/7/05, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
Are they switched off explicitely?
No. Just not enabled. I have no idea what it takes to enable them, but in any case we have our own verbs/shortcuts system which may or may not be easy to interface with this facility.
It used to work in Sodipodi (though the custom bindings never got saved between sessions), but was basically entirely disabled when the "new" (prior to the fork) verb system was introduced.
It would take quite a bit of work to get those GTK facilities working again, and it would probably be less work to just switch to using the native GTK "verb system" (GtkAction, IIRC) instead.
Of course GtkAction does lack some nicities we've hacked on ourselves since the fork -- we'd have to see whether those could be preserved in such a switch.
Hi Inkscapers! I just want to point out the gtk dynamic shortcut binding system caused a lot of pain in GIMP with regard to mnemonic keys. At some cases a shortcut would get assigned while the user just intended to use a mnemonic. Dynamic shortcuts also make it very easy to discard existing shortcut without giving an undo option. The inability to have both at the same time resulted in that behavior to be a preference setting (eek!) and a separate menu shortcut editor in the end.
While I really liked the concept at first, mnemonics are really useful to overcome the problem of having only a limited combinations for shortcuts. If I had to make a decision, I prefer mnemonics.
cheers