[evolution-patches] Re: Anna, Help!

[Kidd Wang <kidd wang sun com>]

Hi, Anna

Sorry, I suspect I didn't express my question clearly. I'm seeking 
suggestions
on the shortcut keys which can be pressed directly rather than the 
accelerator
keys in the menus. Would you please give some advice on the former?

Regards
Kidd

Anna M Dirks wrote:

> Hi Kidd! 
>
> My advice is that you emulate the behavior of 1.5.
>
> So, use: 
>
> "_D" for "Day View"
> "_W" for "Work Week View"
> "_e" for "Week View"
> "_M" for "Month View".
>
> I hope this helps you! Remember that within a submenu, the only
> accelerators you need to worry about conflicting with are those in the
> submenu.
>
> cheers,
> Anna
>
> On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 16:10 +0800, Kidd Wang wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Hi, Anna
> >
> > I have some problems when I'm fixing #45331 since I have to pick out
> > four accelerator keys that are both intuitive to users and free of 
> > confilcts.
> > Enclosed are the discussions between Rodrigo and me and we didn't get
> > any result yet.
> >
> > I wonder whether you would like to give me some suggestions. Thanks.
> >
> > Regards
> >
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> > Subject: Re: [evolution-patches] A calendar patch to fix #45331
> > From: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>
> > To: Kidd Wang <kidd wang sun com>
> > Cc: JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>, Evolution Patches <evolution-patches ximian com>
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> > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 15:10 +0800, Kidd Wang wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Enclosed is a patch to fix # 45331. The original proposal picked up
> > > Ctrl+Alt +D/W/K/M as the accelerator keys to switch between the
> > > four views. As far as I know, that may result in conflicts because
> > > Ctrl+Alt +D is used to display the desktop under Redhat Linux.
> > > Therefor we select Ctrl+Shift+Alt+D/W/K/M instead.
> > >
> > >      
> > ctrl+alt+shift sounds also bad to me :-) Why not use shift+ctrl, like we
> > do for many keybindings in the mailer?
> >
> > cheers
> >
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> > Subject: Re: [evolution-patches] Seeking Further Suggestions
> > From: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo ximian com>
> > To: Kidd Wang <kidd wang sun com>
> > Cc: JP Rosevear <jpr ximian com>, Evolution Patches <evolution-patches ximian com>
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> > On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 15:31 +0800, Kidd Wang wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I don't think Shift+Ctrl is a good candidate here. As you can see when 
> > > you open
> > > the submenu File->New, there are already too many accelerator keys using it.
> > > If we insist using Shift+Ctrl, I'm afraid the accelerator keys won't be 
> > > intuitive.
> > > What do you think, Rodrigo?
> > >
> > >      
> > not sure, I'd prefer the UI team to decide.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> >    
>
>