Am Dienstag, 3. April 2018, 19:38:09 CEST schrieb openhab....@web.de: > Hi Patrick, > > I can't quite follow your execution, probably because I'm not so deeply > involved in darktable. I don't know what the keyboardrc file is. > > I have had a computer for over 25 years and I learned what the primery key > is just a few weeks ago. Therefore, I do not think this term is so common. > Is it really important that the manual matches the keyboardrc? It is much > more important that beginners get along with the documentation and > understand it. > The designation in the documentation should be the same as in the program. > In the settings of the German darktable version the key combinations are > Ctrl + C and the primary buttons are called Ctrl. Perhaps this is due to > the translation. How is it in the English version? > > Before I start and invest time, I would have clarified the topic and defined > the spelling.
Just ignore the "primary" and the fact that there is a keyboardrc file. It's just a technical detail inherited from GTK. The very few people that will ever edit that file manually will be able to find out what the things inside mean on their own. The usermanual is not meant to teach that. > Thanks for feedback! > > Pierre Metzner Tobias > Am Dienstag, 3. April 2018, 14:42:45 CEST schrieb Patrick Shanahan: > > * Tobias Ellinghaus <m...@houz.org> [04-03-18 08:18]: > > > Am Dienstag, 3. April 2018, 09:58:15 CEST schrieb openhab....@web.de: > > > > Hello, > > > > In the documentation there are different spellings for the key > > > > combinations. In the text you can usually find the notation e.g. > > > > Ctrl-c. In the chapter Shortcuts is the notation <Ctrl>c. > > > > > > Yes, it's quite inconsistent at the moment. > > > > > > > I would volunteer to correct this, but first I would like to define > > > > the > > > > spelling. > > > > > > Hooray! > > > > > > > I'd prefer an output like the attached picture, but I haven't found an > > > > XML > > > > compliant solution yet. Ideas are welcome! > > > > > > That would require a font which looks like that, which we would have to > > > ship. Sounds error prone. > > > > > > > Therefore I would adapt the documentation as follows: > > > > 1.) Change the lowercase letters to uppercase, this is the common > > > > spelling. > > > > 2.) I would change the hyphen to a plus sign. > > > > 3.) If there are several keys, one space between the character and > > > > plus > > > > > > > > This changes the previous notation from Ctrl-c to Ctrl + C. > > > > > > That sounds like a good plan. > > > > > > > The documentation often contains <primary>. With regard to Windows and > > > > Linux users, I would change this to Ctrl. In my opinion Ctrl is more > > > > common.> > > > > > > Ack. > > > > > > > Feedback are wellcome! > > > > > > Go ahead! > > > > would it be better to display the key combinations as they appear in the > > keyboardrc file that they may be searched for readily if one happens to > > develope momentary old-timers, ie: <Primary><Shift>w > > and emphasize that the "Primary" key is the Control Key? > > > > or change <Primary> in the keyboardrc file to <Ctrl> and reference as: > > <Ctrl><Shift>w > > > > fwiw: tmux refers to the primary key as the "prefix" key but that key may > > be designated in tmuxrc. > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to > darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
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