Re: keybinding conflicts

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Evan Martin wrote:
> I have a window with a menu with a "New" menu item.  It looks like GTK
> maps this to the accelerator Control+N right around line 307 in
> gtkstock.c.
>
> The window also contains a GtkTextView.  I just had a complaint from a
> user that Ctrl+P works to go backwards, but Ctrl+N doesn't go forwards--
> it instead hits the menu item.
>
> How should I resolve this?  Can I disable that accelerator somehow?
> Is that a good idea?  Any UI people around here?

Hmm... I dunno what Owen's idea is on how this is meant to work, but I
would agree that from a usability perspective, the accelerators for the
currently-focused widget (in this case, the text view) probably ought to
take priority over the menu bar, if possible.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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