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

wwp subscript at free.fr
Mon Aug 27 19:25:35 CEST 2012


Hello Michael,


On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:18:36 +0200 Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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)

Pffffff that's exactly why I didn't get the feature! I thought it was
about Y and Z (geometry axis), and I was definitely lost (wondering
where the fsck there could be axis). Probably didn't pay enough
attention, sorry for the noise!


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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