[Geany-devel] Resetting menu accels - Re: Super modifier in keybindings - Re: Strange Geany behavior

[Enrico Tröger]

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:12:58 +1000, Lex wrote:

>2009/8/14 Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com>:
>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:27:06 +1000
>> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > I've no objection to this, but I probably won't implement
>>> > overriding stock accelerators myself.
>>>
>>> Sorry I don't think I was clear.
>>> What I was trying to say was that overriding them will work the same
>>> as other accelerators, so no specific implementation is needed.
>>> In fact specific action is needed to prevent users overriding them,
>>> like the original suggestion of taking them out of the keybinding
>>> menu, and I was trying to say that I didn't think it was appropriate
>>> or  worth the effort.
>>
>> Well, you have to pass the existing accelerator key + modifier to be
>> able to remove one, so you would need some extra code to lookup the
>> stock accelerator and remove it at startup.
>
>Well I was assuming that since they are already in the keybinding menu
>they are looked up from somewhere and that would just stay the same
>:-)
>
>Interestingly I just realised that my test program is using its own
>accel group to remove the standard accelerator, but it works!!!
>Probably should get the global accel group though.
>Who knows, maybe they just better be taken out the keybinding menu and
>forbidden.  sigh :-S
>
>Comments in the GTK+ bug list seem to show that the developers of GTK
>are somewhat unhappy with the mess of the accel code and associated
>bugs, erm undocumented features.  I guess these are some of them ;-)

Would you mind to share the link to the mentioned bug report? Thanks.


Regards,
Enrico

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