[sugar] [PATCH] fix #4646 - replace/normalize some keyboard shortcuts

[Martin Dengler]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:10:01PM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
> In general, I would say that it's silly to use basic shortcuts for
> actions that have a dedicated button on the XO (rotate, frame), which
> means in general I approve of making alt-f and alt-r more "complex"
> for emulator users.  On the other hand, if we do have a goal of making
> Sugar portable to other hardware, we can't make these assumptions as
> easily.  Is it possible to define the shortcuts in a dynamic way,
> based upon some settings which determine what type of platform we are
> running on/in?

I had the same thought - I think we could do something to make it much
easier for people to define new key -> action mappings.  But one
would need to have a good sense of the usual way(s) users / distros /
customizers prefer to do this type of customization, which I don't
have but plan to muck around with some thoughts and submit a future patch.

This also led me to consider the idea of making it easier to define
the actions themselves, so that we're not just allowing re-assignment,
but new assignment.  The implementation and considerations thereof are
even more beyond the scope of what I had intended to achieve, though.

> My only other comment applies to the comment itself, which I feel is
> slightly presumptuous.

I definitely intended no presumption.  I have removed the comment in
the upcoming version of the patch.

> - Eben

Martin
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