[tomboy-list] Key bindings

[jaredljennings at gmail.com]

Looks great, I think it needs it



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Doug Johnston wrote:

Hi All,



One of Tomboy's greatest strengths is that as a desktop application it

has unique hooks that a web app just can't replicate. One example of

this is the system-wide hotkeys that are available. This inherently

makes Tomboy a very "keyboard-centric", power-user kind of app. I've

always wanted a bit more control with the various in app shortcuts and

modifiers keys though, so I thought it would be nice to expose all the

key binding that we have defined in the program. All over in our code,

we have various lines like:



decrease_font.AddAccelerator ("activate",

						accel_group,

						(uint) Gdk.Key.underscore,

						Gdk.ModifierType.ControlMask,

						Gtk.AccelFlags.Visible);



which bind a function to a specified key. I ripped these out and threw

them all into a dictionary, and then exposed it to the user in the

preferences pane, which allows the user to override just about any

default shortcut key and stores them in gconf (actually, I've only

done this with a handful of bindings, but I dont think it would too

hard to do the rest). Obviously this necessitates changing a bit of

core code, so I wanted to run this by everyone before I went any

further. See http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5215/bindings.png for

how things would look. (obviously needs some tweaking)



So, good idea? Bad idea? Improvements? Reasons why this just wont

work? i18n issues? Does it make the preferences too messy?



Code impact so far is fairly minimal due to similar code being in

place for the system wide hot-key accelerators, but I still need to

hook up the checks that are in there today to prevent bad key

combinations, and go through all the accelerators and

KeyPressEventArgs and switch out the defaults, which might add need a

bit more passing on my mapping around. Not too much work though. I'll

put the changes I've made somewhere once if adding this binding window

seems like an acceptable thing to do. I'd also like to make the hot

keys and bindings directly read from user input. As it is now, you

have to manually type out "<control>". It'd be nice just to press the

key combo you want, and have that end up in the box, but that would be

a separate implementation step. Another natural step would be to add

presets for Windows, Mac, Emacs, etc.





Best,

Doug

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