[Evolution] custom keybindings (was Re: Again: Newbie questions/comments)

[Brett Johnson <brett_johnson hp com>]

On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 15:37, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> anyways, I can't think of a single gui client that allows you to rebind
> keys to different actions.

You must be joking, right?  Lesse, off the top of my head, these are a
few mail/news GUI clients that I'm familiar with which let you remap
keybindings (and pretty much all text-based clients allow it):

        * Netscape 4.x (although you have to edit X resources to do it)
        * KMail, Knode, and pretty much every other KDE app on the
          planet.
        * Sylpheed
        * Eudora
        * ZMail

Granted, the e-mail clients from a certain Redmond monopolist do not
allow one to remap keybindings, but I see that as more of a detriment
than a feature.  And even M$ lets you remap keybindings in their other
Office apps (word, excel, etc...).

> Not to mention this is complicated to do (if
> you want to avoid conflicting keybindings that is, if you want to let
> the user screw himself, well then that'd be easy)

Complicated?  It's been done plenty of times in other apps.  Simply
don't allow the user to create a keybinding that trounces on another
keybinding.  That's not so complicated.

Cheers!
-- 
Brett Johnson <brett_johnson hp com>
     -  i  n  v  e  n  t  -