Re: keyboard

[Manish Vachharajani <mvachhar vger rutgers edu>]

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 bratsche@dfw.net wrote:
> > 
> > I tried the stock-demo, and it really doesn't work. If you select the
> > "Preferences" dialog, it brings up a nice customization menu. But when you
> > apply the changes and then open up Preferences again, your changes are
> > gone. And if you change "Quit" from Ctrl-Q to Alt-Q, it doesn't actually
> > work.
> >
> 
> I think that's why it's in stock_demo and not the control center. :-)
>  
> > At any rate, I think it would be very cool to be able to customize key
> > bindings for the entire GNOME environment. I'd like to try to contribute
> > towards this if you guys also think it's a useful idea. Although I'm not
> > exactly sure what're you're talking about in regards to finding an example
> > in a Windows program to copy.. example of what?
> > 
> 
> Example of an interface to a preferences widget to edit keybindings. I
> think having to pop up a dialog for each change a la stock_demo is a
> little bit sucky. But I don't really have a better idea, so maybe an
> example would help. 
> 
> Havoc
> 

If someone actually implement s this stuff, in the capplet should allow
loading/switching of entire keybinding themes, for example, windows,
unix/emacs, etc.  Maybe there is a nice way to fit this into the themes
for E and gtk+, thought there should be an option not to load the keyboard
theme.  In fact, maybe the theme editor can allow separate selectoin of
themes, for example, only use the gtk+ and keyboard theme but not the E
theme.  Hmmmm, maybe if I get some time...

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