Re: Review of accelerator changes

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Sun, 18 Nov 2001, Bill Haneman wrote:

> > also, changing accels is not so easy if they need to be combined
> > with modifiers by default, and accidental changes can be reverted
> > just as easy as the wee made.
> 
> Not if you're a naive user and aren't sure how the change happenned in
> the first place.  I predict that we will get zillions of bug reports
> about this if it's the default.

we've been having this as default for the last 4 years and did not
get zillions of bug reports.

> > >  Unexpected for everybody the first time
> > > it happens, I'd dare say.
> > 
> > well, pretty much _everything_ new is going to be unexpected, it wouldn't
> > be something new other wise (if you come from a different toolkit), that
> > doesn't autmatically make it bad though.
> 
> OK, my vote is that these are evil.  Consider it one vote.
> 
> Don't get me wrong, I think configurable keybindings are cool, but I
> don't see why they have to be configurable via keystrokes, there could
> just as well be some onscreen utility or popup for doing this that at
> least would make it less likely to happen by accident or 'silently' from
> the users' point of view.

that'd require special handling by every app and just not be a standard
toolkit feature anymore.

> 
> -Bill
> 

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