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#3 Ability to define the hot keys
This is a replication of [ 1529002 ] Ability to define
the hot keys.
Environment: Windows XP Professional SP2
Program version: 1.0.6.2
Enhancement Idea:
Currently, the program has predefined hotkeys to do
various tasks. The ability to define the hot keys as
anything the user wants would be a nice enhancement.
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I agree. Ideally, it would be nice to be able to customize
the following items of the GUI:
* keyboard shortcuts
* menu items (number and order)
* toolbar items (number and order, as alectrus already noted
in another feature request)
* tab behaviour/appearance (already partially implemented)
If these features were implemented it would be possible to
adapt the program interface to the different desktop
environments it is available for, much like Firefox does
(the Tools/Options menu item under Windows becomes
Edit/Preferences under Linux, in accordance with the Gnome
UI guidelines).
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rehdon, thanks for your message. Is there a list somewhere
that summarises the differences? I can easily adjust the
position, label and shortcut keys of menu items depending on
the platform.
Full customisation of menus, toolbars and shortcut keys is
not something that the framework (wxWidgets) supports well
at this point in time (I think Qt is more fully developed in
this regard), but it's certainly something I would like to
implement in the future.
Having said that, I think the toolbar especially requires at
least a basic level of customisation, and this is something
I'm working on.
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Hi Gerald,
I don't know of an item-per-item comparative chart, but you
can easily check the recommended Gnome menu layout here:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-standard.html
I have some spare time today, if you think that that could
be useful I could give you my 0.02€ about the current
menu/toolbar layout (from a Gnome user point of view).
About future developments: I'm fully aware, even as a
non-programmer, of what it takes to do non-trivial
programming, and sure XML Copy Editor looks like a complex
piece of software. Not to speak of the framework limits you
hint about.
I've just begun playing with XCE and it shows potential, if
I'd really have to ask for features I'd ask for validate
while you type and error highlighting.
rehdon
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Hi Gerald,
I don't know of an item-per-item comparative chart, but you
can easily check the recommended Gnome menu layout here:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-standard.html
I have some spare time today, if you think that that could
be useful I could give you my 0.02€ about the current
menu/toolbar layout (from a Gnome user point of view).
About future developments: I'm fully aware, even as a
non-programmer, of what it takes to do non-trivial
programming, and sure XML Copy Editor looks like a complex
piece of software. Not to speak of the framework limits you
hint about.
I've just begun playing with XCE and it shows potential, if
I'd really have to ask for features I'd ask for validate
while you type and error highlighting.
rehdon
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Many thanks for the link. I can see that quite a few changes
will be needed.
<I have some spare time today, if you think that that could
be useful I could give you my 0.02€ about the current
menu/toolbar layout (from a Gnome user point of view).>
If you have a minute, that would be very helpful!
Gerald
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Hi Gerald,
sent the review at your sf address. Let me know if you
didn't receive it.
rehdon
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I have a keen interest in this feature request too. I see that ctrl-b views the xml in a browser, but my preference would be to have ctrl-b insert <emphasis> tags around highlighted text in docbook. I'd also like a hotkey combo for inserting <sect1> and other tags. Alt-I-E (or Ctrl-I) take me to the mouse-click insert menu, but <sect1> isn't in the option list so the end user needs to type out the tags anyway. Customizable hotkeys (and customizable menus to go with them) would really take this app to the next level of usability. I've been looking for a good XML editor off and on for several years now -- XML Copy Editor looks to be *very* promising. Keep up the good work!