2009/8/14 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:35:52 +0100, Nick wrote:
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:32:48 +1000 Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
I hope that you havn't violated the "good GUI guidelines" by having functionality that is only available via keybindings and not by menu ;-)
We have. Probably we could/should add some matching menu items, and IIUC use the relevant widget for the focus commands. There are some special cases though where some keybindings take precedence, so I don't think we can simplify the code that much.
Adding menu items is worth while from a user point of view even if it doesn't improve the code.
I for one am unlikely to find functionality that is *only* available from keybindings since that would require reading and remembering the manual (unlikely ;-) or reading the keybindings (which is also unlikely). Whereas searching the menus has a long and honourable? tradition.
I agree.
Not sure whether I do. In general, you are right. "Hiding" functionality only in keybindings is not the best way. But OTOH adding tons of new menu items just to have them is also not the smartest way, I think. IIRC one of the reasons not adding menu items for each single possible keybinding was to not clutter and bloat the menus too much, And IMO this is still true and still important.
Yes, its a personal judgement call and no two people will totally agree :-) Having looked at the keybindings in detail I agree that some of them don't make sense as menu items, particularly the following areas: Snippets & completion Scrolling Focus Notebook Tabs Toggle fold
but I think the following should make it into a menu (actually a submenu, since I don't think they are commonly used enough to go in a top level menu) and I have suggested which new submenu to put them in.
Ctrl-K delete current line popup-edit Ctrl-T transpose current line popup-edit Ctrl-Shift-X cut line popup-edit Ctrl-Shift-C copy line popup-edit Alt-Shift-W select word edit-select and popup-select Alt-Shift-P select para edit-select and popup-select Alt-Shift-L select line edit-select and popup-select insert alt whitspace popup-edit indent space popup-indent undent space popup-indent prev indent popup-indent Ctrl-B matching brace edit-goto popup-goto Ctrl-M toggle marker edit-goto popup-goto Ctrl-. next marker " " Ctrl-, prev marker " "
Some of the less commonly used existing menu items could also move into these submenus so actually reducing the size of the top level menus. We better be careful, this could spark another GUI discussion ;-)
On a related but different topic.
I have been toying with the idea of adding a simple action recorder/replayer by recording key presses (in on_key_press_event function) and capturing menu activations by a signal emission hook on the activate signal. My question is, are there any actions that don't use one of these paths, and are there any that use both, for example any key presses that go to GTK and activate menus rather than call the callbacks directly in on_key_press_event or any other actions that are invoked directly without an activate signal? This is something I'll look at in detail after the build-system is finished.
Cheers Lex
Regards, Enrico
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