Re: Review of accelerator changes

[Thomas Leonard <tal00r ecs soton ac uk>]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 10:27:49AM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> 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.

These ways of doing global config options... does this involve users
(without gnomecc) editing hidden text files?

Maybe gnome-session could turn it off for all programs (in much the same
way as the current theme can be changed)? I think the default without
GNOME must be ON, though, otherwise there are going to be a lot of
confused users unable to work out how to set keys...

(and yes, users DO compain if they can't work out how to set shortcuts!)


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