[josm-dev] Shortcuts

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Paul Hartmann wrote:

> I agree, this is a bug. There can a long chain of remappings in case of
> a single conflict. One solution is to avoid conflicts altogether, but
> this is impossible: The user can change a shortcut and install a plugin
> afterwards that uses the supposedly free key.
>
> One problem is, that "Ctrl+Shift+s" becomes "s" in conflict resolution,
> because the "s" shortcut is registered after the Plugin and Main menu
> shortcuts so it seems to be still free.
>
> Possible solutions:
> * Always replace shortcut by a combination with more or the same
> modifiers ("Ctrl+Alt+Shift+s" or "Ctrl+Shift+?" with any letter ?).
> * Keep a list of shortcuts from the last sessions in a file. For
> conflict resolution, avoid combinations that seem to be already in use.

I mainly fixed these cascadings now. The complicated grouping is gone and 
for conflicts an unlikely key is choosen (F1-F12 with at least 2 
modifiers), so one conflict will from now on only kill one shortcut.

Ciao
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