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著者: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
題目: Re: [DNG] Speaking of Window Managers
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 05:14:38PM +0000, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 08:35:05AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> [cut]
>
> > > I belive there is little point in asking such questions: you will get
> > > as many different answers as the number of people who provide an
> > > answer...
> >
> > There is a purely technical aspects to this question:
> >
> >    conflict with hotkey assignments commonly used by other tools.

> >
> > There is still point in discussing this.
>
> Well, any hotkey that is not a combination of four or five keys has
> already been used in one of the applications that some of your
> potential users consider "a fundamental tool" for their
> productivity. Just to make a few examples: GIMP, Inkscape, Vim, Emacs,
> etc.
>
> If we take also into account that little thing called "personal
> preferences" and those two big monsters named "habit" and "laziness",
> you will recknon that there is little point in discussing which
> default hotkeys one should use for this and that. Anybody you ask will
> name "the best" set of hotkeys...
>
> The first thing I do in a new unix installation is getting wmaker and
> then copying the GNUStep directory and the .emacs file I have
> "accumulated" in my unix lifetime, so for me there is no point at all
> in discussing hot-keys for xfce or for another application: mine are
> the best (for me).
>
> >
> > One way to minimize this is to have one hotkey to access a menu for
> > all the different functions proposed for hotkeys, and for one of the
> > menu items to be to configure hotkeys.
> >
>
> I think this is a very bad idea. A hot-key is useful if you don't have
> to think about it or to select it from a list, if you can use it
> blindfolded, without looking at the keyboard or the screen, and if in
> the end it becomes like a thin glove which you don't feel you are
> wearing or use. The rest is just cluttering the interface without
> profit, IMHO.


Exactly. And everyone will have his own preferences, and so you want
to have an easy-to-find confgurator so he can do it before he's had to
use the for-him-wrong interface very much.

-- hendrik