Re: More Keybinding

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Robert Bushman wrote:

> The single biggest productivity enhancer for me in
> Linux is keybinding.  I use Gnome and spend most of
> my time in Emacs.  Both allow virtually unlimited
> keybinding - my hands rarely leave the keyboard,
> and hitting a key chord is faster than using an
> analog device to target an icon.
> 
> What I'd like to see is more applications offering
> this kind of tunability.  The best implementation
> I've seen is in the GIMP, which works as follows
> (courtesy: http://iew3.technion.ac.il/CC/Gimp/ )
> 
> "The second method is interactive and produces a single addition or change
> while working in the GIMP. You do this by placing the mouse cursor over
> the menu item and then typing the desired keystrokes. As you type the
> keystrokes they appear to the right of the menu entry. The next time the
> function is to be used, it can be invoked by the new shortcut."

That should work with any application that uses GTK v1.2.x, I think.
Strangely, the feature doesn't seem to have been carried forward into GTK
2.0.6, at least.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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