xffm and super_l

Bernhard Walle Bernhard.Walle at gmx.de
Tue Jun 17 15:32:36 CEST 2003


Hello,

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 at 08:25 (-0500), edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> El mar, 17-06-2003 a las 07:42, Bernhard Walle escribió:
> > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 16:18 (-0500), edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > > El lun, 16-06-2003 a las 15:50, Bernhard Walle escribió:
> > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 15:39 (-0500), edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > > > > El lun, 16-06-2003 a las 08:35, Bernhard Walle escribió:
> > > > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 13:24 (-0500), edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> > > > > > > El dom, 15-06-2003 a las 09:56, Bernhard Walle escribió:
> > > 
> > logic. Another thing I would like is Ctrl+ mouse wheel (mouse button 4
> > and 5) because it's implemented in lots of other applications.
> 
> But what should Ctrl+ mouse wheel do when enabled?

Increasing/decreasing the icon size. Normally this is a `zoom' function
and I think that this is a sort of zoom in a file manager, isn't it?


> > > And BTW, now that we know how to use the super_L as a modifier, what
> > > other keybinding with super_L would be useful?
> > 
> > I don't think that super_l is very useful since many keyboards (e.g.
> > laptops) have no windows keys.
> 
> That's why the bindings should be to the least important stuff. It's
> just that if you do have the super_l key it's a terrible waste of
> desktop space if not used. I think it would be good to bind all
> shift+control+key to super_l+key as well, that way if you happen to have
> the super_l, you do not have to press 3 keys simultaneously. 

Very good idea.


> > Let me mention another two things. One thing is I wrote in the xfce
> > mailing list (not the developer one) but got no real reply. It is not
> > possible to bind '.ps.gz' to a postscript viewer like gv. I would really
> > like this because most Postscript viewers can handle them without using
> > gzip manually. At least it should be done with editing the regarding file, 
> > but it doesn't work. :-(
> 
> I'll try to fix that bug today.

Would be very good.


> > And I saw that the German translation is incomplete. Because I'm a
> > native German I think I can do that work if you and Benedikt (who
> > translated the things that already are translated) don't object.
> > But I would like to use real umlauts (not ae but ä) because it looks
> > more professional. I know, I must save it as utf-8 ...
> 
> Please go ahead. The xffm po file is very large and I'm sure everybody
> in .de will appreciate your contributions.

Ok, if I have something practical I'll send it to you or should I post
it here? But we should make sure that not two people work on the same.


Gruss,
Bernhard

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