Re: ANNOUNCE: Style Guide available for review.

[Christopher Blizzard <blizzard appliedtheory com>]

Robert J. Slover wrote:
> 
> 
> For the Apps that don't have keyboard accelerators where I felt the
> need for them...I often found myself hacking with ResEdit on the Mac
> to *Add* them.  Gnome should make this easier.
> 

gtk has the ability to add bindings on the fly that don't already have
them.  There shouldn't be a problem there.

> >
> > Ok.  When a key binding standard is both available and the
> > software is ready for use, we can add information about the
> > key binding standard.  However, I personally feel that
> > individual applications still have no business changing the
> > key binding for a common operation that may be used in other
> > places.  Changing that in a global area is fine, but not in
> > each program.
> >
> 
> I'd find an application for setting global key bindings useful *if* it
> provided some heirarchical way of doing it...so the common things (Cut,
> Paste, Copy, Save, Quit, etc.) are easily changed, while less common
> ones (Alt-F-S for <F>ont <S>ize in App A) might be overloaded (to be
> Alt-F-S for <F>orward <S>election in App B) just as easily.  Otherwise
> the useful bandwidth for accelerator binding will be quickly consumed.
> I realize that this might be a bad example...in this example, I might
> choose binding strings in each program that are different for the two
> cases, (e.g. "Font-Size" and "Forward-Selection"), but what happens
> when along comes AppC which has *both* functions?  Perhaps answering
> that last question intelligently is all that is needed...?
> 

I agree.  Someone still has to write tha application and the standard
though.

--Chris

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