Re: [Gimp-developer] Can hitting Enter/Return twice apply changes made in popup dialogs?

[Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>]

On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 16:47 +0100, C R wrote:
> Wait, what? Oh, I mean the third enter. Sorry, you're right, you have
> to
> hit enter to confirm the option.
>
> 1st enter opens the combo box, 2nd enter confirms the selection.
> Third
> enter commits.
>
> From any of value box (be it combo or otherwise), you should be able
> to hit
> Enter/Return to apply the changes of the dialog, after hitting enter
> to
> confirm the value.
>
> Better?

Yes, much better :)

However: enter meaning something different before and after
combo selection is also bad.

How it *should* work:

1. open combo (space)
2. confirm entry (enter)
3. confirm dialog (enter)

3. is missing, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381254

Somebody needs to hack this up in GTK+...

Regards,
--Mitch

> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2016-05-18 at 07:31 +0100, C R wrote:
> > > It's always been a bit of a kink in my workflows.
> > >
> > > You want to quickly apply the last Preset, and sure enough,
> > > hitting
> > > the
> > > Enter/Return key after the dialog opens jumps to a preview of the
> > > last
> > > recorded preset. <-Love this.
> > >
> > >
> > > What I'd like to be able to do is hit Enter/Return key again to
> > > apply
> > > the
> > > changes.
> > >
> > > Instead, I either have to try to tab/shift+tab my way to the OK
> > > button,
> > > click the canvas and hit Enter, or try to remember the hotkey
> > > that
> > > applies
> > > the changes I've made for that specific dialog.
> > >
> > > Hitting Enter/Return key twice does nothing currently in the
> > > dialog,
> > > so if
> > > the return button is hit again, is it possible to have it just
> > > commit
> > > the
> > > changes? This would dramatically help hotkey based workflow in
> > > GIMP.
> > You are essentially asking for:
> >
> > 1st enter opens combo box
> >
> > 2nd enter confirms entire dialog
> >
> > Absoluteley not, this breaks the expected behavior of the combo
> > box and would lead to total confusion.
> >
> > An enter in an open combo box (in all open combo boxes in GTK+)
> > simply confirms that combo box.
> >
> > Regards,
> > --Mitch
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