Re: [gtk-list] Re: Style Guide (was Re: vi bindings for text widgets)

[Pat Rogan <rogan lycos com>]

I agree.

nelson-gtk@crynwr.com wrote:
> 
> Steve Hosgood writes:
>  > I know this is heretical, but I'll say it anyway.
>  >
>  > I say keybindings should be a function of a 'style guide', and not settable
>  > to random things by users. Here we are, championing GTK as a fine toolkit for
>  > writing applications, yet we seem to be supporting two conflicting camps
>  > at the same time:
>  >
>  > One says: "here is a set of nice widgets, so that all GTK applications can
>  > have a similar look and feel".
>  >
>  > The other says: "you can set your own preferences for everything in your
>  > .rc files in such a way that GTK applications on *your* workstation are so
>  > baroque that no one except you can run them"!
> 
> Right.  These are not conflicting.  The goal is to have all
> applications respond to the same set of keystrokes and menus.  Once
> you have that, it's only a little more work to make those keystrokes
> and menus configurable.
> 
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