Re: more accelerator keys related thoughts

[christian ridderstrom gmail com]

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Lars Clausen wrote:

> > already taken, I would propose Alt+N (I don't have a particular good
> > reason for it, just that it's unused and close to M. But maybe someone
> > can come up with a better suggestion?).
>
> Alt shortcuts are actually bad, as they clash with the keyboard menu
> navigation, so I'm not going to add more of those.

A few days ago I noticed that 'Alt-I' is used for both 'Input methods' and 
the 'Image' tool. When you have menus at the top of the window, the 'Input 
methods' is what is activated when pressing 'Alt-I'.

> > A final thought goes to the property box of a shape: I think Alt+Enter
> > is usually expected to open up the property window. But I am not sure,
> > whether this setting would cause any problem.
>
> Can you give examples of other programs that use this?  I wouldn't mind 
> having one, and using one that people know from other places would be 
> preferable.

Opera uses it when editing bookmarks and it's standard in Windows 
(Explorer).

> > Well, that's enough of my accelerator key waffle. I would really like to
> > see default settings in dia, though. I hope this post might start a
> > discussion to find a sensible set of defaults.
>
> Here's a full list of the current shortcuts, generated with

What's the purpose of .dia/menurc?

$ cat .dia/menurc
; dia GtkAccelMap rc-file         -*- scheme -*-
; this file is an automated accelerator map dump
;
; (gtk_accel_path "<Display>/File/tearoff" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Display>/View/Zoom/25%" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Display>/Objects/Unparent Children" "")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Display>/Tools/Line" "<Alt>l")
; (gtk_accel_path "<Toolbox>/File/Open..." "<Control>o")
...

cheers
/Christian

> From Dia 0.94, I got this:

$ cat .dia/menurc | grep '.*"[^"]\+")$' | \
                    sed -e ' s/.*"\(.*\)" *"\(.*\)")/\2 - \1/' | sort

<Alt>1 - <Display>/View/Zoom/100%
<Alt>2 - <Display>/View/Zoom/200%
<Alt>4 - <Display>/View/Zoom/400%
<Alt>5 - <Display>/View/Zoom/50%
<Alt>a - <Display>/Tools/Arc
<Alt>b - <Display>/Tools/Beziergon
<Alt>c - <Display>/Tools/Bezierline
<Alt>e - <Display>/Tools/Ellipse
<Alt>i - <Display>/Tools/Image
<Alt>l - <Display>/Tools/Line
<Alt>m - <Display>/Tools/Magnify
<Alt>p - <Display>/Tools/Polygon
<Alt>r - <Display>/Tools/Box
<Alt>s - <Display>/Tools/Scroll
<Alt>t - <Display>/Tools/Text
<Alt>z - <Display>/Tools/Zigzagline
<Control>a - <Display>/Select/All
<Control>b - <Display>/Objects/Send to Back
<Control>c - <Display>/Edit/Copy
<Control>d - <Display>/Edit/Duplicate
<Control>e - <Display>/View/Show All
<Control>f - <Display>/Objects/Bring to Front
<Control>g - <Display>/Objects/Group
<Control>l - <Display>/Objects/Parent
<Control>n - <Display>/File/New
<Control>n - <Toolbox>/File/New
<Control>o - <Display>/File/Open...
<Control>o - <Toolbox>/File/Open...
<Control>p - <Display>/File/Print Diagram...
<Control>q - <Display>/File/Quit
<Control>q - <Toolbox>/File/Quit
<Control>s - <Display>/File/Save
<Control>t - <Display>/Select/Transitive
<Control>v - <Display>/Edit/Paste
<Control>w - <Display>/File/Close
<Control>x - <Display>/Edit/Cut
<Control>z - <Display>/Edit/Undo
Delete - <Display>/Edit/Delete
F1 - <Display>/Help/Manual
F1 - <Toolbox>/Help/Manual
<Shift><Control>a - <Display>/Select/None
<Shift><Control>b - <Display>/Objects/Send Backwards
<Shift><Control>f - <Display>/Objects/Bring Forwards
<Shift><Control>g - <Display>/Objects/Ungroup
<Shift><Control>l - <Display>/Objects/Unparent
<Shift><Control>s - <Display>/File/Save As...
<Shift><Control>z - <Display>/Edit/Redo

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr