RE: Request for help - NeXT keybindings

[Mondragon, Ian]

nicola -

  i own several NeXT slabs and work on NeXT (x86) every day.  what app(s)
are you looking for key-bindings for?  i can give you them with no problem
whatsoever.

- ian mondragon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicola Pero [SMTP:n.pero@mi.flashnet.it]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 10:48 AM
> To:   discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject:      Request for help - NeXT keybindings
> 
> gnustep-gui can now read keybindings from files, which will allow very
> easy customization of the keybindings.
> 
> Each of us has his own preferred keybindings :-) and as a matter of fact
> I'm already receiving suggestions to put this or that keybinding in the
> default ... :-) so I'm a bit confused - we need to have some way (other
> than my, or Adam's, or anyone else's taste) to choose the default
> keybindings.
> 
> the general principle I'd like to apply to rule this matter is the same
> used in all the rest of gnustep-gui -
> 
>  - the default keybindings will be like in nextstep
> 
>  - everything should be done in such a way that it is as easy as possible
>    to customize the keybindings for people who don't like the default
> 
> problem is, I never had a nextstep so I don't know what the nextstep
> keybindings are. :-)
> 
> Would some nextstep lover/fan track all the keybindings used in NeXTstep
> 3.3 and send me the list (private email) ?  We might have to do some
> approximation if the keyboard of a PC is different from a NeXTstep
> keyboard.  Anyway if some NeXTstep lover would do that, we can have
> precisely the same keybindings used in GNUstep by default.
> 
> Then, gnustep-gui can already load additional/different keybinding files,
> I'd like to rework that a little but the general principle that there will
> be a very easy way to override/change the system keybindings will remain.
> 
> When we have Preferences.app, it will allow people to customize
> keybindings very easily - by either setting a user default (presumably to
> load different pre-made keybindings files, for example a premade
> WindowsKeyBindings.dict file giving you windows keybindings) or to edit
> the user's own key bindings file directly (the user types in a key
> combination, Preferences.app grabs it, then allows the user to choose to
> which selector he wants to bind the key combination too).
> 
> 
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