Re: gEDA-user: GTK RANT

[Paul Tan <pt75234@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Kai-Martin Knaak,

You can change the default key mapping in
system-gschemrc file.  Look for (define file-keymap,
and read the Key Mapping rules comments in there.

Best Regards,
Paul Tan



-----Original Message-----
From: Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: geda-user@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 8:52 pm
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: GTK RANT



On the dev list (where I am not allowed to post anymore), Peter C
complains about the trouble it takes to do special things with GTK:

> I'm already at +740 lines of code _just_ to get multi-letter
> accelerators _DRAWN_ on menu items.

IMHO, this simply means, gschem is way off the rails here. I never
experienced multi letter menus with any other app. This is very much 
non
standard. As such, it steepens the learning curve for the newbie. It 
took
me quite some time to get used to.

Even after many hours of gschem usage, I still seem to be more slowly
than with, say, pcb. Core developers certainly feel strongly in favor 
of
the two-key interface. However, I'd be a happy user of a the usual one-
key, or key+modifier accels. As a goody, you get online user menu accel
adaption for free. Just type the preferred accel key while the mouse
hovers over the menu item. Afterwards the menu action will be attached 
to
the key.

---<(kaimartin)>---
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Kai-Martin Knaak
http://lilalaser.de/blog



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