[scribus-dev] Please review / merge this patch

Craig Bradney cbradney at scribus.info
Wed May 7 20:17:03 UTC 2014


On 7/05/2014 10:13 pm, JLuc wrote:
> Le 06/05/2014 22:55, Craig Bradney a écrit :
>> On 6/05/2014 2:43 pm, JLuc wrote:
>>> Le 04/05/2014 20:08, Craig Bradney a écrit :
>>>>> Please find thereafter a patch that brings keyboard shortcuts for styles :
>>>>> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10289
>>>
>>>> Right now, Scribus shortcuts do not allow a differentiation between application mode shortcuts or
>>>> text mode shortcuts, nor do we set up actions with default keys like a,A,b,B.
>>>
>>>> So, with this patch, styles can have a shortcut set as 'b', or 'shift b' for example.. which then
>>>> stops you typing any more 'b's.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts on how to avoid that?
>>>
>>> Well, that would be the user's choice.
>>> In case you want to protect the user from himself,
>>> the style dialog could refuse to record shortcuts like plain a-zA-Z for styles.
>>> For such keys it would require CTRL or ALT (i dont know about Apple© keyboards).
>>> Would that fix the concern ?
>>>
>>
>> It leads to a bigger question about shortcut handling within Scribus.
>>
>> Jean and I are working on this from two directions - both the short cuts for styles and enhancing
>> shortcut management.
> 
> Ah. If you think your work will not land in the coming weeks,
> then it would be easy and cool to merge the proposed patch as is
> - easy because it's ready ; and cool for the happy few who use the 1.5 -

Those of you who do that can build it yourself with the patch applied locally. We won't merge stuff
that we know is broken or causes brokenness.

>
> btw is there a public repo to see or test your works ?
> 

Yes.. public SVN has any of our changes as we commit them.

Craig




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