> > Now that mozilla has been switched to gtk+2 a lot of people will get > > bitten by the fact that for some bizarre reason the emacs mode is no > > longer default in the gtk+2 settings as someone pointed out on this > > list a few weeks ago. This means that the standard ^U, ^A, ^E etc. > > emacs commands will no longer work - I mean, those even work on IE > > on a windows box!! I think this should definitely be made default. > > It is important to understand that this affects *all* applications > that use GTK2. The basic impact is that where ^x used to directly > call an action, now if the focus is in an input field it will > intercept most ^x keystrokes (and interpret them as editing commands). > This shouldn't break any applications, but it is a change in behavior. > > People running lots of GTK2 apps, maybe a GNOME desktop, should check > whether they are comfortable with this--assuming they didn't already > set this behavior in ~/.gtkrc-2.0.
If it is so important that you LEFT THIS ALONE until just before we head into a release? Who's not paying attention to making a quality release?
