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

[Lex Trotman]

2009/8/17 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
> On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:51:39 +1000, Lex wrote:
>
>>2009/8/16 Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de>:
>>> On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:59:27 +1000, Lex wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>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                  "          "
>>>
>>> Cool, thanks for this list.
>>
>>Note that this is only for 0.17, I'm not sure how many more 0.18 will
>>add.
>>
>>> However, I fail to make any sense of the third column. Could you give
>>> some hint about what exactly "popup-edit", "popup-select" and the
>>> others mean? Thanks.
>>>
>>
>>My apologies, I was trying to suggest adding a new submenu of either
>
> No need to apologise. Maybe I just didn't try hard enough, anyway, now
> it's pretty clear (and obvious :).
>
>
>>popup-edit means new edit submenu of right click popup
>>popup-indent means new indent submenu of right click popup
>>popup-goto means a new goto submenu of right click  popup
>>edit-select means a new select submenu of the main edit menu
>>edit-goto means a new goto submenu of the main edit menu
>>
>>Where more than one is listed on the same line I am suggesting putting
>>the item in both.
>
> Ok. But to be honest I really don't want to add *anything* more to the
> right click popup menu. It's already very big. When considering the
> Gnome HIG, it's way too big. But I think in our case that's ok as long
> as we don't fill the menu even more.
>
> For the Edit menu in the file menu, I think we could add a new submenu
> like "More Actions" or something which then lists the actions you
> mentioned maybe in more sub menus sorted by categories (as you did
> above). This way we would not bloat the existing menus really and still
> gain the benefit of having menu items for most keybindings.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it, my only worries are not to bloat
> the menus too much.
>

Totally agree with all you said.

Maybe submenus of the popup for the inserts and the finds could help shrink it.

To be honest I don't use the popup much, I use keybindings mostly so I
am probably not best qualified to say whats common use and whats not &
can go to a submenu.

>
>>>>function) and capturing menu activations by a signal emission hook on
>>>>the activate signal.
>>>
>>> How do you mean that? Do you want to connect to the activate signal
>>> of each single menu item? Maybe this can be avoided by connecting to
>>> the "button-press-event" or maybe better "button-release-event" of
>>> the main window ('main_widgets.window') and inside the handler
>>> determine which widget actually was activated. Not completely sure
>>> whether this will work but I think so. This way you don't need to
>>> modify any or at least not much code in Geany itself. Just an idea.
>>
>>I thought about just recording keypresses, thats simple, but means the
>>user can only record things that have keypress shortcuts and they have
>>to use the keypress.
>>
>>I don't think that it is necessary to explicitly connect to each
>>widget's activate, I havn't tried it yet, but
>>g_signal_add_emission_hook claims to add one handler to catch all
>
> Ah cool. I didn't know about it. That'd be definitely much cooler than
> connecting to each widget's activate signal :).
>
>
>>Does menu->edit->delete do any thing different to pressing the delete
>>key?  It isn't in the keybinding menu.
>
> Yes.
>
>
> Sorry for not going into detail with the rest of your mail. I'm very
> limited in time currently and already spent most of the day with the
> release.
>

Thanks for your efforts so far, I really didn't expect an answer until
after the release :-)  and thanks for the release.

Cheers
Lex


>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>
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