Re: Gnome Key Binding Standard

[Christopher Blizzard <blizzard appliedtheory com>]

Alex Achenbach wrote:
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> I recently came across the non-existent "gnome key binding standard"
> again (aka http://www.gnome.org/devel/sg/i_dont_exist_yet.html).
> 
> I thought I'd put up some proposal for that, just to make a start
> (I don't know any Gnome internal status of discussion on this issue);
> the following is just a draft (or "wish list") based on the
> experience with various programs and on my personal needs
> and thoughts.
> 
> Unfortunately, I cannot currently plan on implementing this myself
> (maybe later this year...?).
> 
> The main purpose of this is to suggest a basic set of keyboard
> functions; the given "possible bindings" are just examples.
> Every common binding should of course be globally configurable still.
> What's important is the abstract set itself.
> 
> Comments welcome!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Not all of the functions should be absolutely freely configurable,
> of course (eg it should avoid definition conflicts of any kind).
> 

Before people go hashing this out all over again, I'd like to summarize
what happened the last time that this was brought up on the list. 
Here's the general consensus:

o It is important that key bindings be the same across applications for
common operations, many of which you listed in your propsal

o Key bindings should be globally configurable for all applications from
a single interface.

o A sane default binding should be chosen and themes should be available
for bindings

--Chris

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