Re: actual proposal

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 12:05:46PM -0400, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> >  I suppose, if feasable, we could expand Keythemes to include whole text
> >  processing patterns, so a user could load up a "vi" theme that would
> >  generalize vi to all text entry mechanisms.  
> 
> This has been discussed to great extent in the Gnome and Gtk lists.

my point was that the styleguide should not Mandate any keybinding,
and especially ones which are not that nice to some particular group
of users

> >  but vi could be stdin/stdout patched into the GNOME text widgets...
> 
> This does not make any sense.

well one way to solve all this is to make the text/entry widgets,
"pluggable" ... that is provide a way to

1) load up an .so module with a text/entry widget (just like theming,
but I'd find this a bit more usefull)
2) contact an external app and request a new window for text/entry
(I hear you can do this with emacs)

George

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