Re: keyboard accelerators

[Kai <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 24 September 2010 20:55, Robin Neatherway <neatherway gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just downloaded Meld 1.3.3, and the addition of the keyboard accelerators
> is very welcome. I found a couple of things counter-intuitive however, and
> was hoping to solicit some opinion on them:
> 1. If Alt-Left and Alt-Right moves changes left and right, could Alt-Up and
> Alt-Down also move between changes, rather than adjusting a single line?

This has always been the plan. I have a local branch that makes the
Alt-Up/Down change (it's harder than it should be if you consider a
range of sourceview backends). However, I haven't pushed it because I
didn't want to simply remove the Ctrl-D/E bindings --- I'm sure many
people are used to them by now --- and I don't know Gtk's keybinding
mechanisms well enough to add them as additional options for those
actions.

> 2. When I am at a change, I think of myself as being at that change, rather
> than in a particular file. As a result it is surprising that you can only
> Pull and Push from the file that is selected. Would it not be simpler to
> push in either direction and just allow Alt-Left and Alt-Right, removing the
> Shift-Alt-* menu option completely?

I don't think I understand the idea. You can already push and pull in
either direction... are you talking about having change actions always
be relative to the middle pane or something?

cheers,
Kai