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Subject: Re: [Rosegarden-devel] Thorn HotKey Editor?
From: D. Michael McIntyre <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 01/09/10 01:34
> On Saturday 09 January 2010, Christopher Cherrett wrote:
>
>   
>> Does anyone here find the current hotkeys useful with the whole keyboard
>> eatten up by note entry?
>>     
>
> Yes.  When I broke them by accident, users bitched.
>  
>   
>> Possibly some use the note entry more, but for my workflow and I know
>> others, Thorn is very hot key limiting.
>>     
>
> We already talked about some kind of quick toggle to switch between our 
> default map and yours.  That's probably the only realistic solution to this 
> one.
>
> It's too late to get this into the February release though.  We've got too 
> much work fixing bugs and more bugs on top of bugs to think about anything 
> like this at the moment.
>
> I've got a rough sketch in my head of how to make the thing work though, and 
> I 
> was planning to try to make a deal with you (I've got a draft around here 
> somewhere I lost track of) where I'll write the framework and you'll get 
> somebody else to actually fill in the blanks.  I don't want to have to stare 
> at your map and figure out what needs putting where, nor do I want to have to 
> be the one to decide what to do with what now that there's no edit cursor.  
> Your map doesn't translate directly across, and maybe you want to do 
> something 
> else with the keys that are no longer useful.
>
> This could get done for the April release, maybe, depending on the direction 
> things take, and what kind of tarpits I wind up stuck in over the coming 
> weeks.  When I get time, I can probably knock the layout switching framework 
> together in a few days.  I need to step back a little and take stock of all 
> this, because the original plan was hatched at a time when we weren't 
> translating keyboard shortcuts.  Now we do, so there are all kinds of 
> translation questions to factor into this.  Revert translating the shortcuts 
> and rely on some map loader instead, for instance, although that would 
> probably up the ante on this whole endeavor considerably, and I'm fairly well 
> inclined to forget that idea at this point, and just hard code the shortcuts 
> for each of the alternate maps.
>   
Sounds good. Let me know when you are ready to roll on it and I can help 
out.

Thanks!


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