-------- Original Message -------- 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.
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