Re: keyboard

[sml13 cornell edu]

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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