Re: New keybindings draft

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

Tim Janik wrote:
>
> haven't checked the new version yet, but recently skimmed over the
> old one. aparently it was missing to mention that menu item
> accelerators can be altered by pressing a new accelerator
> while the menu item is highlighted.

I think it's in there, I'll double-check when I do the next draft.  We
certainly discussed it among ourselves, because we realised how
confusing it is for blind users!

> to be technically correct, that only works for keys other than
> those listed in gtkaccelgroup.c:gtk_accelerator_valid() and
> GDK_Delete, GDK_KP_Delete and GDK_BackSpace have the special
> meaning of just removing the old accelerator.

That's a subtlety I wasn't aware of... I don't think it affects the
proposals, but it's handy to know!

Cheeri,
Calum.

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