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From: Harish Karumuthil <harish2704@gmail.com>
To: Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Feature: custom guitool commands can now have custom keyboard shortcuts
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2019 01:46:41 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <149a83fd40b71896b134b16c2b499ff472c6234e.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191004120107.kpskplwhflnsamwu@yadavpratyush.com>

Hi All,

From https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/email-clients.html, I
understood that, my current email client ( that is gmail web ) is not good
for submitting patches. So I was tying to setup a mail client which is
compatible with `git send-mail`. But I was not able to get a satisfactory
result in that.

For now, I followed the instruction of Johannes Schindelin and submitted a
pull request . Please see https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/376

---------
@ Pratyush: Regarding your comments,


> A pretty nice way of doing it. But I would _really_ like it if there was
> an option in the "create tool" dialog to specify the shortcut. People of
> a gui tool shouldn't have to mess around with config files as much as
> possible.

I agree with this, But that may require some more profficiency in TCL/TK
programming which I don't have. This is the first time I am looking into a
TCL/TK source code.
Any way I will try to integrate the gui gradually in feature. But
unfortunatly, I may not be able to do that now.



> David has advocated inter-operability between git-gui and git-cola.
> While I personally don't know how many people actually use both the
> tools at the same time, it doesn't sound like a bad idea either.
>
> So, sharing shortcuts with git-cola would be nice. Of course, it would
> then mean that we would have to parse the config parameter before
> feeding them to `bind`. I don't suppose that should be something too
> complicated to do, but I admit I haven't looked too deeply into it.

IMHO, Using a uniform shortcut-key code/foramat for both application can be
considered as nice feature.
But, whether we should share common shortcut-scheme with both application is
a different question.
Currently, both apps don't have a common shortcut-scheme. So in this
situation, only sharing custom-tool's shortcut-scheme with both applications
doesn't look like a good  idea to me 


> Are you sure that is a good idea? I think we should at least make sure
> we are not binding some illegal sequence, and if we are, we should warn
> the user about it. And a much more important case would be when a user
> over-writes a pre-existing shortcut for other commands like "commit",
> "reset", etc. In that case, the menu entires of those commands would
> still be labelled with the shortcut, but it won't actually work.

I agree with you. It is an important point. After reading this, I checked
current status of these issues. What I found is given below.

1. When user provides an invalid sequence for the shortcut, it will cuase the
entire gitgui application to crash at the startup

2. When user tries to overwrite existing shortcut, it will not have any
effect. Because, built in shortcuts will overwrite user provided one. But
still, wrong menu accelerator label will persist for custom tools

Since #1 is a serious issue, I tried to find out the function which does the
keycode validation, but I haven't succeded till now. ( I found the C function
name  which is "TkStringToKeysym" from TK source, but I couldn't find its TCL
binding ). It will be helpful if any one can help me on this.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-05 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-29 11:38 [PATCH] Feature: custom guitool commands can now have custom keyboard shortcuts Harish K
2016-03-31 16:41 ` David Aguilar
2016-04-01  6:32   ` harish k
2019-10-03 14:48     ` harish k
2019-10-03 21:44       ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-10-04  8:49         ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-04 12:01           ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-10-05 20:16             ` Harish Karumuthil [this message]
2019-10-05 21:01               ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-10-06  9:49                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-06 18:39                   ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-10-06 19:37                     ` Philip Oakley
2019-10-06 20:27                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-06 21:06                       ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-10-07  9:20                         ` GitGUIGadget, was " Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-07 10:43                           ` Birger Skogeng Pedersen
2019-10-07 19:16                             ` Alban Gruin
2019-11-19 22:09                         ` Making GitGitGadget's list -> PR comment mirroring bidirectional, " Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-20 14:22                           ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-10-06 22:40                       ` Philip Oakley
2019-10-07  6:22                   ` Harish Karumuthil
2019-10-07 10:01                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-08 19:31                       ` Harish Karumuthil
2019-10-09 20:42                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-13 20:09                         ` Pratyush Yadav
2019-10-07  6:13                 ` Harish Karumuthil
2019-10-13 19:17                   ` Pratyush Yadav
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-03-29 11:29 Harish K
2016-03-31 16:49 ` David Aguilar

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