From: D. M. M. <mic...@ro...> - 2009-08-27 00:36:58
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> Isn't waffling fun! Indeed, Chris, now that I've gone for a little walk, I have to say the problems of how to wire up all these cross-linkages at the "entering notation" scope are pretty dubious. It could work that way, but while in "entering notation" mode, I really think it would feel goofy to have to go through this flippy flippy flippy business to get to inserting a clef. These shortcuts wouldn't have to be global, because I don't think it's that important to be able to pick your destination inside "entering notation" mode from the outside. However, we'd really want separate shortcuts for clefs and symbols, instead of leaving them trapped inside some cycle of indirect key pressing. If we have separate shortcuts, they may as well just be global shortcuts, instead of shortcuts that only have meaning at the local scope. They're going to be separate keys anyway, so what's the point in constraining them? So I have to say I've just about flipped on this again. I'm not at all afraid of writing some new "meta tool" with persistent state memory and all that, but I don't think the beast necessarily solves the whole problem after all. Does it? So I think F3 to go to "insert notes" and that is what is attached to the pencil icon, with the alternative permutations in a tooltip or something would be fine. The keyboard user can F3 or Shift+F3 or Alt+F3 or Ctrl+Alt+AltGr+SysRq+F3 if they are that intent on never touching the mouse for some reason. -- D. Michael McIntyre |