| From: | Ed Dana |
| Date: | 18 Sep 2000 at 21:45:28 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: GUI Standardization |
Aaron Optimizer Digulla wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:29:01PM +0200, Gregor Goldbach wrote:
>
> > > > Is there someone working on GUI standardization? The reason I ask
> > > > is I've now added hotkey support to E-Winease and am wondering if there is a
> > > > spec for window hotkeys like close, minimize, to front, to back, etc...
> > >
> > > Use Alt-F4 for close :-)
> >
> > Could be please have configurable hotkeys? Just a table like those X
> > window managers have: map keys to events...
>
> Maybe the GUI API should allow an app to register such a table of events
> and then other apps could use them to control it (something like
> "ARexx lite". This way, we could have several GUIs for the same app,
> for example, one which is driven by a script and another which is
> driven by some kind of remote GUI or skins.
>
> And the table above should be per-user (because I want to close *all*
> my windows with Alt-F4; I don't want any crazy app designer to force
> me to learn a different key for his app because he doesn't like Alt-F4).
Back in the Gateway daze their goal was a reconfigurable GUI. As this is the goal of
many of the up and coming OSes (like Athena) I would expect it is still Amiga's goal.
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