Re: Review of accelerator changes

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Thomas Leonard <tal00r ecs soton ac uk> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 01:20:43PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I guess we can turn dynamic-accel-changing off by default in Red Hat
> > and Solaris and Ximian and so on, whatever wrong thing GTK does
> > upstream. But I'd rather all GTK users avoided this possible source of
> > confusion. It's blatantly a bad idea from a usability standpoint - I
> > doubt you could get a single one of the experienced UI people we have
> > in GNOME to defend it.
> 
> But, Gtk+ isn't only used in GNOME applications. How about this:
> 
> - Have the feature turned ON by default in Gtk+.
> 
> - Have gnome_init() turn it OFF (possibly as a config option from GNOME's
>   control centre, etc).

And how confusing it would be if it worked in some GTK+ programs
and not others? We have ways of doing global config options
now ... there is no reason to add GNOME specific config options.

                                        Owen