Re: Redefining shortcuts (was: Re: Nested groups as faux layering)

["Michael Ross" <michael e ross gmail com>]

Hans,

I am reminded of a message I was directed to read some time back to the effect that "Usability" from the standpoint of open source users is generally not recognized by the developers.  And why should it be?  Everybody that works on the code must be pretty happy with it or they would be changing it.  Their priorities for changing it probably reflect their own needs, desires, and skills. It is not possible to argue with this.

Those who are not coding are basically supplicants.  And so I am a supplicant.  All I can do is be appreciative for the work of the developers, try to be persuasive when I need something.   I am very grateful for Dia in 0.97-pre7 clothing.  I use it a lot and it is an excellent tool.  Now I know I can probably nest groups multiple times without any inherent trouble arising.

Mike

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Hans Breuer <hans breuer org> wrote:

The only thing I noticed not working is redefining to one of the already used (by windows) keys, e.g.

There you have it.

I don't really care for most of the choices that were made.  So much so that I won't use newer releases for any length of time.

This is not a slam on the choices at all, there is absolutely no reason to expect that people with different needs, using different languages would make the same choices.  If I was a left handed mouser my choices would extremely different.  Someone must have liked these choices a lot to code them. 

I have a heightened awareness of this, it is not a trivial matter which it may be to most people.  I work very hard to get the shortcuts the best way for me.  I test them and change them quite a bit - if I can.

How about a version of Dia where none of the shortcuts are pre-defined? Then I can do as needed for my own purposes.

Thanks,

Mike

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