Re: menu keyboard shortcut customization broken in Bonobo?

[John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com>]

on 2/5/01 8:31 PM, Michael Meeks at michael ximian com wrote:

> 
> Hi John,
> 
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, John Sullivan wrote:
>> GNOME (or is it GTK?) has a user-editable menu shortcuts scheme
>> whereby the user pops up a menu, prelights an item, then types a
>> keyboard equivalent (including modifier key). This keyboard equivalent
>> is then stored in some wacky place and displayed/used in the future
>> for this menu in this application.
> 
> Yes; this is the case, it was added after much deliberation since
> there was war in the gimp world over what shortcuts should be used for
> what.
> 
>> Some user reported that this didn't work with Nautilus, and sure
>> enough, it doesn't. I remember that it worked originally, so I
>> strongly suspect it stopped working when we switched to using the new
>> Bonobo UI stuff. Michael, can you confirm or deny whether this
>> mechanism is supported by Bonobo?
> 
> I can confirm that this mechanism is not supported by Bonobo. This
> is a concious decision for several reasons, some of them ergonomic, some
> of them based on the neccessity of dealing sensibly with keybindings
> across a plurality of merged components, some of them in horror at how gtk
> does keybindings. I think the best solution to the problem is to ensure
> that the default keybindings are sensible, and to wait for the pretty GUI
> bonobo keybinding editor which is in the 2 year plan.
> 
> Does that help ?

Absolutely -- thanks for the response. I didn't like the feature anyway, but
didn't want Nautilus to be the only program not supporting it.

John