Two user interface comments...

[Benedikt Eric Heinen <beh icemark ch>]

Hi there,

  I made the following two suggestions (among others) to the Gimp
developers. They told me, that the following two, are most likely a gtk
matter.
  I hope the gtk-developers here find these suggestions somewhat useful...
;)

Any comments on these?

  - The idea on how to redefine a key is great, and I like it very much.
    Still, I'd change it a little bit:
        [current behaviour]
                I move the mouse to the item I want to assign a key to and
                press the new key.
        [desired behaviour]
                I move the mouse to the item I want to assign a new key
                to.
                I press the "new" key, and if that key is currently used 
                somewhere else, gimp will open a window for a second or
                two and show the current key use. If I hit the key again
                it will change the binding, if I hit another key it will
                again first show me the current binding.


  - I'd like to be able to set hotkeys on a sub-menu, e.g. set CTRL-L to
    "Xtns/Script-Fu/Logos". When I hit CTRL-L the Gimp should open the 
    logos submenu right under my mouse, without me having to go through 
    the Xtns menu again by "wild moving around".



  Benedikt

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