Re: selectable labels

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> > > Try to control ghex from keyboard, for example. When you are inside
> > > editor/viewer, alt-f will not bring you to menu. In fact, I could not
> > > figure out how to get to the menu.
> > 
> > Same in gnotepad, unless you give focus to the status area first, which
> > isn't exactly intuitive  :o)  (Plus you can only do that with the mouse,
> > which rather defeats the purpose!)
> > 
> 
> The problem there is that GtkText eats the Alt-f as "move forward
> word." Our new rule is that the editable widgets don't get to use Alt-
> shortcuts by default (but Emacs die-hards can set them to do so in
> their .gtkrc).
> 
> Although the new GtkTextView does still eat Alt-f at the moment, Owen
> is making me change it. ;-)

Actually, my current plan for this is to make global accelerators
take precedence over key bindings.

But, conflicts between the two should definitely be avoided by 
widget-binding-creators and application writers whenever possible.

                                        Owen