Re: [Geary] Poll Results: Instant search vs single-keystroke commands

[Stephen Michel <stephen michel tufts edu>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:03 AM, Michael Gratton <mike vee net> wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
>
> Thanks for trying that out and writing up your thoughts.
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Stephen Michel 
> <stephen michel tufts edu> wrote:
> > In the end, I think that there is a lot of value in SKCs if we 
> > provide them with proper support. I agree with Federico that this is 
> > one of the rare times when a setting makes sense. I don't know what 
> > the gmail shortcuts are (I don't use gmail), but if they have 
> > significant conflicts with vim (eg, if d isn't delete) I would 
> > (personal bias) make it a 3-option setting so we can support gnome, 
> > gmail, and vim shortcuts each to their fullest extent.
>
> Yeah, I agree that the SKC's could use some love, and same goes for 
> the traditional GUI shortucts as well - currently Geary has a mix of 
> both and hence are kind of odd either way. Making SKCs a pref would 
> enable both them and the traditional style to be cleaned up, but 
> making it a three way pref is something of a slippery slope however - 
> if Geary not only supports GNOME/GMail/vim, why not also Emacs (/me 
> waives his own muscle memory flag), or or OSX, or CDE, or whatever 
> else.
>
> In the end we just need to work out what's worth supporting and 
> sticking to that. Given the number of people who do use SKC's I'm 
> loathe to take them out, so adding a pref to enable them and cleaning 
> them up to make some more sense seems like the best way forward.

Late response, but such is mailing list email during the semester.

I agree there's some danger of scope creep here, and also that the 
potential gain is worth the risk.

While we're in fantasyland, what I'd really rather see happen is: turn 
GNOME Builder's vim/emacs emulation into more of a system-wide API, 
where each app can pass a list of available functions, current 
keybinds, and maybe suggested keybindings for vim/emacs emulation, and 
then the user can enable vim mode or set up custom keybinds over in 
that application. Like dconf for keybinds.

~Stephen