Re: First UI component needing replacement.

["Michael T. Babcock" <mbabcock fibrespeed net>]

That's exactly what I was proposing.  The part I described in a bit more
detail I guess was the application side, as I'm an application programmer.
In the control panel, however, I'd expect locale-based (and other)
keymappings such as "VI" or "Emacs" or "Windows" or "Traditional Gnome" or
"Custom" or whatever.

----- Original Message -----
From: <thristian@atdot.org>


> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:11:58AM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> > This is part of why I once suggested that we have keybinding profiles in
the
> > control centre and that such 'standard' things to bind keys to as
> > LEFT/RIGHT, word-at-a-time, beginning of line, etc. all simply be named
in
> > Gnome software, instead of being queried directly.
> >
> > if (keypress == GNOME_KEY_LEFT) move_cursor_left();
> >
> > You get the idea.
>
> You ever tried to pick your own keybindings from scratch? Even in
> something as simple as Quake, it's not easy. Working out a logical and
> consistent keymapping can be quite a bit of work. If this were done,
> I'd want a "theme" style feature where I can save and load sets of
> keybindings, with default themes of "Emacs", "Windows", and
> "Macintosh". I doubt any keybinding functionality of reasonable
> complexity could decently emulate vi. :)