Subject: Re: Syles and Shortcut Keys
From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 10:03:08 CST
On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Virgil Arrington Jr. wrote:
> Alan responded to my suggestion:
>
> > > > 3. Fine tune styles. You've got a real good start here but some
> > > > features,
> > > > such as hot-key assignment don't seem to be working.
> >
> >On a point of principal i endevour to have many keybindings for abiword,
> >there should be sensible default whenever possible.
> >So while you may not be allowed to assign hotkeys i hope that abiword will
> >provide sensible defaults for enough features that you wont need to.
>
> . . . and so on.
>
> Actually, much of what you have written here is way above me, so let me try
because im basically not talking about the same thing you are.
im talking about menu item shortcuts
> to explain more clearly what I mean. Right now, in the Modify Styles dialog
> box, there is an option to assign the style to a "Shortcut Key" When I
> click on it, nothing happens. That was the point of my suggestion - simply
> make it work.
thats a bug.
> Your comments about the different ways other platforms deal with command
> keys concerns me. You seem to suggest - and hopefully I misunderstand you -
> that permitting a Ctrl-Alt combination for Windows users may not be possible
> because Mac users don't have those keys available. If that is the case, I
> have to question the wisdom of the cross-platform approach. I'd hate to see
> with a platform or operating system I will never use. That would make Abi
thats what you think, unless you are close to retirement dont bet on
having to switch to a fundamnetally different OS within 10 years
(even windows 3.11 is nothing like Windows XP and highly incompatible).
> limited to the lowest common denominator. Please say it ain't so.
Highest common factor :)
I dont care much about OS and if im on a Mac (like right now) or a windows
machine or a unix machine its important that Abiword is still Abiword.
(yes i know Abiword aint availble for mac yet, and you can tell this email
was sent from a Linux machine by looking at the headers, but those are
just technicalities). Its all about the Applications.
What im saying is that any built in keybindings would have to be aware of
these considerations, but there is no reason why user specified keybinding
could not choose these for themselves if and when the hotkeys feature was
implemented.
>
> Virgil
>
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