Re: wishlist item: quicker kwy shortcuts

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 05/13/2006 03:41:40 PM Sat, Kacper Wysocki wrote:
> On 05/13/06 14:57:13, Steffen Klemer wrote:
[ snip ]
> > This is not very consistent with the rest of Gnome. How do you  
> > like <return> and <esc> for Yes and Cancel?
>
> Dont know what you mean by consistent, but right now <return>  
> and <esc> is No(don't save) and Cancel, respectively, although  
> you can change the focus to another button with <tab> as per  
> usual. I'm just questioning the need for a modifier for the key  
> combos when the dialog has a sum total of three actions to  
> choose from. Why <alt>-y when 'y' suffices? Indeed, there is no  
> need to delete any exist key bindings - but why not add  
> convenience, at little cost?

I'd never noticed that <esc> cancels the dialog!

I guess that's the kind of thing that Steffen means by  
consistency: Balsa creates a dialog with default characteristics,  
and gets reasonable key-bindings that any other app will share,  
if it too accepts the defaults.  In this case, there is an  
argument for <return> meaning Yes instead of No, since Yes is the  
safer action.  But otherwise, the dialog will respond the way the  
user expects.

We'd probably have to go in at quite a low level to bind 'y' to  
Yes--catching key-press events, or some such.  I believe that  
avoiding low-level interactions like that makes Balsa generally  
more robust.

Best,

Peter