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

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

Mozilla doesn't use Gtk, it "emulates" gtk look

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 00:55 +0200, Roland Orre wrote:
> 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
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