Re: 12.10 key shortcuts

John Harrigan <[email protected]> writes:

> * [email protected] (Nov 09, 2012 @ 07:30+0100):
>> John Harrigan <[email protected]> writes:
>> > A couple of my shortcuts stopped working between 12.02 and 12.10.
>> >
>> > I use "- alt" to open up a panel and "= alt" to open up a new tab.  These
>> > combos don't do anything any more in 12.10.  If I modify the combos to use
>> > ctrl instead of alt they work as expected.  The "p alt" combo continues to
>> > work (preferences).
>> 
>> The problem is that "- alt" means "the keypress that produces the '-'
>> character, with the 'alt' modifier pressed."  It's just that once you
>> press the "alt" modifier, that key no longer produces the "-" character.
>> 
>> It works with ctrl because we cheat.  We assume that nobody will need
>> the actual character produced when holding ctrl and use the unmodified
>> character instead.  But that assumption is wrong for the alt modifier.
>> 
>> So instead of the character you'll need to use the symbolic name for the
>> key.  For "-" I think you can use "Subtract".  For "=" it depends on
>> your keyboard layout.  For standard us keyboard, I think it is "Add"
>> (which is rather odd.  I thought the symbolic names were based on the us
>> keyboard.)
>
> Thanks, "Subtract" and "Add" work for me.  I've gone through the rest
> of my shortcuts and the only one that's not working now is "/ alt".
> If you could send me the symbolic name for "/" I would appreciate it.

I believe that would be "Slash".  If not, let me know and I'll have
another look at the code.

(Oh, and we suspect that "Add" is in fact a bug.  We may change that to
"Equal" or something similar at some point.)

eirik
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