Fwd: [Evolution-hackers] Found key binding bug, need hint!

[Roland Orre <roland orre gmail com>]

sorry, used the wrong reply button. I think this is of interest
for the list as well.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Roland Orre <roland orre gmail com>
Date: Jul 7, 2005 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Evolution-hackers] Found key binding bug, need hint!
To: Not Zed <notzed ximian com>

> On 7/4/05, Not Zed <notzed ximian com> wrote:
> > Also, things in the menu's can't be overriden.  e.g. ctrl-p will
> > activate the print menu.  A couple of reasons for this, one is that the
> > middleware we're using - bonobo - wont let us, and another is that
> > customisable menu bindings are generally thought of as a bad ui idea
> > anyway - one of the few things in the gnome ui guidelines i'd probably
> > agree with.

I think you are wrong here. You said that the menu binding override
the application keys. First this would be a terrible wrong behaviour.

The application specific keys should have priority, but, as I type this
in gmail, and am then using firefox, which is also implemented with
gtk as far as I know, there the menu keys are overridden. E.g the
menu says, "Select all Ctrl+A" but ^A works, it goes to the beginning
of line, as Ctrl+P to previous line etc. Otherwise I would have had a
lot of problems with gmail, as well.

What would be the correct and obvious behaviour is that the
application prints on the menu keys the current active
keybinding for that function. Any other behaviour is flawed
from my point of view.

            Best regards
            Roland Orre