More complex menu schortvuts

2013-06-30 Thread Dominik Vogt
Recently I find it annoying that hotkeys in menus can only be simple characters because of the menu item syntax, e.g. + &FvwmConsole ToggleFvwmConsole ^^^ I'd like to extend the hotkey logic so that it also works with moulti character key names like "f1" and possibly sequences like "ctrl-sh

Re: More complex menu schortvuts

2013-06-30 Thread Thomas Adam
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 05:42:51PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > Recently I find it annoying that hotkeys in menus can only be > simple characters because of the menu item syntax, e.g. > > + &FvwmConsole ToggleFvwmConsole > ^^^ > > I'd like to extend the hotkey logic so that it also works wi

Re: More complex menu schortvuts

2013-06-30 Thread Dan Espen
Dominik Vogt writes: > Recently I find it annoying that hotkeys in menus can only be > simple characters because of the menu item syntax, e.g. > > + &FvwmConsole ToggleFvwmConsole > ^^^ > > I'd like to extend the hotkey logic so that it also works with > moulti character key names like "f1"

Re: More complex menu schortvuts

2013-06-30 Thread Dan Espen
Thomas Adam writes: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 05:42:51PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: >> Recently I find it annoying that hotkeys in menus can only be >> simple characters because of the menu item syntax, e.g. >> >> + &FvwmConsole ToggleFvwmConsole >> ^^^ >> >> I'd like to extend the hotkey

Re: More complex menu schortvuts

2013-06-30 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 05:53:39PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote: > Another idea might be to simply allow keys when a menu is open to act like > a typeahead search; the more keys you press, the closer to match you get, > and at each stage, matched items are highlighted in the menu, etc. Actually, what

Re: More complex menu schortvuts

2013-06-30 Thread Tapio Luukkanen
Hello, On 30/06/13 20:31, Dominik Vogt wrote: Actually, what I have in mind is page switching. Consoles can be switched with Alt-F. I've configured the same in fvwm. On my 3x2 desktop, the top three pages are selected with Alt-F1/2/3 and the bottom three pages are

Re: More complex menu schortvuts

2013-06-30 Thread Thomas Funk
Dan Espen wrote: > Dominik Vogt writes: > >> Recently I find it annoying that hotkeys in menus can only be >> simple characters because of the menu item syntax, e.g. >> >> + &FvwmConsole ToggleFvwmConsole >> ^^^ >> >> I'd like to extend the hotkey logic so that it also works with >> moulti