RE: ANNOUNCE: Style Guide available for review.

[Paul Hepworth <phepworth s-vision com>]

> Why not just an easy frontend to do what xmodmap does?  X already has
> a
> concept of "keymappings" which allows for a given key to be mapped to
> a
> symbolic entity.  E.g., Backspace doesn't work in Netscape by default
> under linux because netscape expects backspace to mapped to the
> "Backspace" keysym; under Linux, it is mapped to the "Delete" keysym.
> 
> It should be easy enough to write a utility that would load up a set
> of
> keysyms when gnome was started.
> 
Yes.  Allowing for multiple-key sequences mapping to a single symbol, of
course.  (For the benefit of the emacs ppl.)
Of course, the number of possible symbols is great.  It should include
things such as "open" "next buffer" "search again" "search forward"
"copy" etc. etc.
Also, it is sensible that an application could create new symbols;
these new symbol names would be exposed to the user for modifying the
bindings.


Paul