Re: Idea for GSoC 2007 : Shortcuts improvement

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 19:38 -0300, Lucas Mazzardo Veloso wrote:
> 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.

One problem you'll have to address there, then, is that keys like Ctrl
are often used as modifiers for drag-and-drop.  And you wouldn't want
the shortcuts to pop up while you were dragging something-- not even in
the brief moments between holding down Ctrl and starting to move the
mouse.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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