Re: selectable labels

[Pavel Machek <pavel ucw cz>]

Hi!

> > > 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).

ghex is not using GtkText (alt-f does not have any effect in it), but
that's probably not the point.

Maybe defining F10 to always be menu would help here? You could leave
alt-f to word forward and have F10,f for accessing
menu. (Alternatively, you could use "windows" key or "meta" key; they
are more common then I'd like :-).

								Pavel
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