GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World)

Posted Nov 26, 2015 16:49 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World) by flussence
Parent article: GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World)

I remember Mark Shuttleworth's suggestion that GNOME should move to Qt. It sounds more sensible with each passing year.

GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World)

Posted Nov 27, 2015 23:11 UTC (Fri) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (6 responses)

OTOH, I'll state that GTK+ has always done one thing better: input handling.

I don't know if the Qt toolkit or the apps using it are to blame, but every single keyboard/mouse shortcut customizing feature I've used in them has been useless whether it's Qt4, KDE4 or Qt5.

GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World)

Posted Dec 6, 2015 11:23 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link] (5 responses)

I only ever notice GTKA apps rarely let you configure shortcuts and I haven't figured out how to do complex characters in them. Can you give an example of what you mean? Just curious.

GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World)

Posted Dec 7, 2015 12:12 UTC (Mon) by prokoudine (guest, #41788) [Link]

Complex characters? Any examples?

GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World)

Posted Dec 7, 2015 14:36 UTC (Mon) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link] (2 responses)

> I only ever notice GTKA apps rarely let you configure shortcuts ...

While there usually isn't a discrete "Configure Shortcuts..." dialog like in KDE apps, most Gtk+ apps will respond to highlighting a menu item and pressing the shortcut key that you want to assign to it.

GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World)

Posted Dec 7, 2015 15:49 UTC (Mon) by mbunkus (subscriber, #87248) [Link] (1 responses)

Are you sure this actually still works? It doesn't for me in Gimp, neither in FileZilla (which uses wxWidgets which uses GTK on Linux). I just gave both a try.

GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World)

Posted Dec 7, 2015 19:50 UTC (Mon) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link]

Well, it worked for me in The GIMP the last time I tried it, but that was back in Gtk+ 2 days.

According to <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B#Keyboard_shor...> it should still work for Gtk+ 3, but you need to add the following option to your $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini file under [Settings]:

gtk-can-change-accels = 1

It's possible that the same is required in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 for Gtk+ 2; I don't remember whether I changed that option or not.

GIMP is 20 Years Old, What’s Next? (Libre Graphics World)

Posted Dec 8, 2015 21:09 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

More specifically, GTK recognises all my keyboard and mouse buttons. Qt doesn't, and it's more restrictive about which combinations of them are valid.