Re: [Usability] Input Events to Action Mapping

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Apr 12, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> ...
> http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/event-to-action-mapping-1/

Interesting. :-)

> ...
> Important questions are: do you want it?

While this would allow easier customization for users, it might make 
Gnome a misery for ISVs. They would use some keyboard combo for some 
special function in their application, in the knowledge that it wasn't 
one of the standard Gnome keyboard combos -- and then they'd get 
support calls and complaints from people who had set that same combo to 
do something else system-wide, just because Gnome had made that easy to 
do.

> ...
> Besides possible improvemnts on my design document, next on my
> list is a mapping configuration dialog, where I currently see
> some scary complexity. All input and help welcome.
> ...

If this was implemented, it would need to be possible for the 
Preferences windows of programs supporting this system to have a 
"Keyboard Shortcuts..." button, which opened *that application's* 
section of the system-wide Keyboard preferences window. Otherwise it 
would be unreasonably difficult to find out how to customize the 
application you were using right now.

Cheers
--
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/