On Monday 31 August 2009, Christopher Cherrett wrote: > So would it be possible in thorn to have the ability to go into note mode?
Who's going to get the mechanics to work is my main question. I like the idea in principle, but don't have time to worry about writing that mode switcher just at the moment. It would take a bit of piddling to work out how to swap all the shortcuts around from one mode to the other, unless you happen to have solved that problem already. (And then if you have, it's probably too much to hope for that it bolts in place with our new menu and action creation scheme.) If the enhancements on the table are the matrix shortcuts keyboard map at the page Heikki found, that whole map looks largely plausible, with some adjustments to suit how things have diverged after the fork. I wouldn't have any particular interest in using that myself, but you took the hardcore keyboard users with you, and if they like this scheme, it's probably a good scheme, and you've done the work of coming up with an arrangement that works well. I don't use most of the notation shortcuts that swallow the keyboard either, but the ones I do use regularly would be on the other map, the only map we currently have, so my only big concern there as a user is making it quick, reliable and simple to flip. A sticky mode like toggling caps lock comes to mind, probably with an indicator on the status bar. Should all be workable. Julie wants time to get her current rework finished before thinking about this, but if the two modes are sufficiently self-contained, it doesn't seem too likely to cause conflicts there, and the biggest question is where to find a key on our own map to use for working the toggle. One benefit not considered is if we have some mechanism for swapping out a keyboard map, we can more easily accommodate international keyboards. Depending on how all the backend stuff works, especially, it would be nice to have some way to easily rearrange our existing note keys map to other international layouts. I'm not sure what the status of all that is past or present, but I don't think we've ever done an adequate job of accommodating how these key relationships make little sense on, for example, German layouts. That probably applies to your map as much as ours, and maybe you have indeed already worked out some way to handle that. Anyway, where I come down is I'm interested, but I've set aside several of my own personal high priority agenda items to buckle down and get into crunch mode with the feature set we're going to have for the release we've just got to get out there soon. I've been spending all my time working on a subproject I enjoy about as much as getting my teeth cleaned, and this has got to get done, while adding some new notation keyboard mode is easily something we could save for the next release. I'm not saying that has to be the case, but what I am saying is the less of my direct attention this requires, the better. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-devel mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-devel
