Re: Design for Keyboard Shortcut Behaviour: Quasimode Command System

On May 22, 2004, at 10:41 pm, Mathy Vanvoorden wrote:
> So, if I get this straigth, this would mean a pop-up window everytime I
> press ctrl+c or ctrl+v ?

An oversight on my part meant I forgot to mention that the prompt and 
command list would only be displayed after a short delay. So the window 
would pop-up only if you took your time to enter the command, which 
hopefully equates to the times when you need a reference list of 
commands.

> [...] That said, I think this should be made available as an 
> "extension", not as default Y behaviour.

I was hoping to implement this as a module, and integrate it with my 
ideas for a window manager. It would be available for users to 
load/unload as they wish.

> I also feel that most users won't like it if you take away their
> toolbars and stuff. In fact, most programmers will implement it anyway,
> either you like it or not.

I don't have any ideas to remove all toolbars and menus. I am designing 
this on the basis that it must be easy to port applications from X 
windows (e.g. Mozilla), which would require support for menus, 
toolbars, etc. I am just hoping to try and improve how the menus and 
toolbars work.

> There should be an unified way of handling
> shortcuts, I just don't think this is it.

Indeed you may be right here, I'm going to implement it and if it turns 
out to be rubbish we'll use something else :)

Karl