Re: keyboard
- From: sml13 cornell edu
- To: malbright betasphere com
- cc: gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: keyboard
- Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:40:49 -0500 (EST)
This is soooo cool! Is this a 1.1 feature only? This should be
advertised somewhere (in the tuturial, maybe), as this is a feature I had
noo idea existed. Hope not everyone is as clueless as me.
shane
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Matthew Albright wrote:
> ---Havoc Pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> For keybindings in an application (like Alt-Q being quit, or Alt-O
> being File Open), The GIMP has a really cool way to do it.
>
> You pull down a menu with your mouse, and while you are over let's say
> "File Open... Ctrl-O", you just press the key combination you want to
> bind with that menu item. So if you press Alt-O, the menu item
> changes to "File Open... Alt-O", and Alt-O is now your shortcut for
> File Open.
>
> Check it out in The GIMP if that explanation is too opaque.
>
> Obviously this does not solve the problem of binding things in all
> applications, or remapping Ctrl to Alt or something, but it's a start.
>
> matt
>
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