[Users] Switching y and z in mimeview (patch)

Michael Gmelin freebsd at grem.de
Mon Aug 27 19:18:36 CEST 2012



On 27 Aug 2012, at 19:03, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello Michael,
> 
> 
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 09:16:09 +0200 Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:46:55 +0200
>> Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> ...
>>> 
>> 
>> Since I didn't receive any feedback, so I implemented this in a simple
>> fashion. This feature allows swapping of y and z in mimeview, which is
>> useful on QWERTZ keyboards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTZ)
>> to operate mime part navigation with the left hand (like users of
>> QWERTY keyboards can do already). It does not modify the (y) and (z)
>> menu labels in the mimeview context menu, as this would have broken
>> existing translations/increased the size of the patch.
>> 
>> The patch adds a configuration option to the keyboard shortcuts section
>> in the Other->Misc pane of Preferences and is disabled by default.
>> I didn't add any translations in /po, since I'm don't know what the
>> process looks like in claws and if the feature will ever make it to
>> CVS.
>> 
>> Once the option is enabled, y and z are swapped in mimeview.c (in
>> an slightly clumsy way that didn't require a lot of code changes
>> and should be easy to audit).
>> 
>> I hope this is useful to others as well ;)
> 
> A screenshot would be welcome!
> 

Screenshot of what? (all this does is change the mapping of y and z, since a majority of central Europe has keyboards that work this way round)

> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> wwp
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