Re: Patch for Delete key behavior (for dia-0.96.1)

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:51 -0400, Michael Ross wrote:
> I just loaded up .96-7 and it is not doing GUI stufff well at all.

You mean just keyboard shortcuts or more than that?

> I see that a lot of the shortcuts are now listed as Shift+Control
> +Whatever  very few actually work, it would be easier to list the few
> that do work.  An odd selection of the old combinations work, I didn't
> do a comprehensive study. 

The reason they're now shift-control is that we're trying to avoid the
various mappings that are used as part of different input methods --
another reason why a specific text edit mode would help.  I don't even
have a comprehensive list of what mappings are used by input methods.

> Because that is not a practical one handed shortcut, I will not likely
> use it and be forced to operate with a mouse (hard on the ulnar
> nerve).  About the only practical three key combination for my left
> hand is Shift+Control+Whatever.  I can reach about to Shift+Control+B
> and that is all. 
>
> I am really going to need how to tweak the menu system myself the way
> new releases of Dia are headed.  Can someone direct me to where in the
> code is the Shift+Alt+Etc business?

It's in app/menus.c.  

> I tried looking in the menurc and editing that, but I like Ondrej
> could not get anything to work (that was in .94).  There must be more
> to it.  Also there were no entries at all ion menurc with the word "
> <Actions>/display-actions/" as in:
>
> Change:
> ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/display-actions/EditDelete" "Delete")
>
> To:
> (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/display-actions/EditDelete"
> "<Control>Delete")
>
> Should I be adding them? 
>
> If not in menurc then where would those be?

That should be in ~/.dia/menurc, yes.  But please do it in recent code.

> And am I supposed to use the ; or not?

The ; should go away.  Its presence turns the line into a comment, as in
Lisp.

-Lars