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Re: New keybinding system
From: |
Nicola Pero |
Subject: |
Re: New keybinding system |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:30:45 +0000 (GMT) |
> 1. the abort keybinding. If you open a save panel, and want to abort it,
> you currently press 'Esc'. I think the abort key should be the same
> in all context - it's actually very important for consistency.
>
> I personally like being able to type Control-g and would like that to
> abort panels in the same way as Esc. At the same time, I think people
> who are used to typing Esc to abort panels, would benefit if the text
> system recognized Esc as being an abort key.
>
> Anyway - I think we should use the same abort key(s) everywhere. It
> should be possible to configure it (them), but it (they) should be the
> same everywhere.
Now that I think about it, I'm no longer sure.
If you have a textfield in a panel, and you press 'Esc' to reset the input
manager context in the textfield, for accident you might abort the whole
panel!
So perhaps it is a good idea to keep 'Esc' and 'Control-g' separate.
Comments appreciated.