On 7/19/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
- Inkscape should listen for keypresses when a menu is active and use
that key as a shortcut from now on (just like GIMP).
We have a different keyboard setup system. Maybe it can be somehow coupled with this GTK feature, but I don't know how. And personally, I always considered this "keyboard configuration via menus" very inconvenient and counterintuitive: when in a menu, I want to invoke actions, not reconfigure them.
Amen. I thought they got rid of that "feature" a while back. I just tried it in gimp 2.2 on Win32 and it doesn't seem to work. The main problem with it is that there's no way to find out if the key you're setting to menu item X is already assigned to feature Y. It just re-assigns it without warning. This was a cheap hack for configuring keys that somehow managed to stick around far longer than it should have. What they really needed was to make some sort of configuration dialog that could give proper feedback, check for conflicts, allow for canceling if you decide it's a bad idea or if it was really just your cat stepping on the keyboard, etc.
--bb