Hi Ben,
On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 23:02, Ben Escoto wrote:
> Hi, I have been thinking about making Evolution easy to use from the
> keyboard. I think the basic strategy should be try to move as many
> commands as possible into the menu, and then allow Galeon-style binding
> using the menu.
Just to address this particular point, this feature was consciously
disabled in Evolution (and in any application that uses Bonobo menus).
The reasons being:
* It encourages us to work on a truly good set of keybindings instead
of leaving it up to the user
* It makes it easier for documenters, testers, and bug reporters
* There would be major technical problems getting this to work right
when several Bonobo components are merging menus (you could bind one key
to multiple commands, etc)
Basically, the concensus was that binding keys at will was a pretty neat
feature, but the benefit that it gives is not really great enough to
make it necessary. In my view it's a slightly unusual manifestation of
the configuritis problem that many Linux apps have -- far too many
options (cf Sawfish control center applets).
That being said, you can change keybindings if you want by editing
Evolution's Bonobo UI XML files, but that's not really a recommended
practice.
And, going back to the first point above, we should improve our keyboard
support; there are definitely still problems.
Peter
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