Re: Redo consistent keybindings for all. Ctrl+Shift+Z

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Tomas Frydrych wrote:

> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:44:14 +0000
> From: Tomas Frydrych <tomasfrydrych@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: abidevlist <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: Redo consistent keybindings for all. Ctrl+Shift+Z
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> The key bindings need to be first of all consistent with the normal
> conventions on each platform; there are few things more frustrating than
> working with application that has some arbitrary bindings. While
> consistency across platforms would be nice, it has to come second to the
> platform conventions. Yes, it complicates life for those who use AW on
> different platforms, but that's life, you cannot please everyone, and I
> have no doubts that the latter group is singificantly smaller then those
> who just run use one OS.

You are conveniently forgetting the difficult task of keeping the
documentation up to date which affects a very large group. (Indentally it
would be very nice to be able to generate a keybindings reference document
from the code and provide it as an appendix.)

- Alan
Received on Tue Mar 15 21:43:44 2005