Re: Idea for GSoC 2007 : Shortcuts improvement

["Lucas Mazzardo Veloso" <lmveloso gmail com>]

2007/3/11, Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>:
> What's harder is to play nice with the shorcuts that are already
> defined, like mnemonics and regular shortcuts (Shouldn't ctrl+n appear
> directly near the "new" icon from the toolbar ?).

Really nice you have pointed it out.

Yes, it should. In fact, already defined shortcuts should work without
any (or with minimal) code modifications. So, when users holds
CONTROL, all those already defined shortcuts have to pops-up. This
must be the project primary goal.

The second goal is about allowing a complementary keyboard approach:
software developers might be able to design a menu-like shortcuts to
some desired UI components (as shown by those mock-ups). By
'menu-like' here I mean keyboard sequences as ALT+F Q, ALT+F P, ALT+E
X. Toolbars could be accessed in both ways if the software developer
add this complementary shortcut approach.

> Good luck in completing the spec :-)

Thank you!

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