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Re: Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts
This would be the ideal situation I guess. I'm all for it if it's easy enough to implement.
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Just because we nerdly folk, living on the fringes of Mac software aren't scared off by such things but Cog is supposed to be simple and effective. I've said it before when people say "Well just make it a preference!" when they ask for some obscure option and I'll say it again now: Preferences aren't the solution to everything and just because you CAN doesn't mean you should. I agree with the previous comment that there should be more hotkeys for things like searching and what-have-you but making them customizable, globally accessible, blah blah blah is just plain old-fashioned overkill.
Re: Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts
While I agree that overkill is possible with this sort of thing, and that not every parameter needs to be customizable, I do think that preferences are an excellent way of dealing with multiple users' individual preferences (!) for how they want to navigate an app. I like the idea of an "Advanced" prefs pane, I think it does the trick nicely...
What alternatives to prefs would you suggest?
(I hope the alternative isn't "if you want to change the defaults, compile your own version" -- the number of nerdly people who can do that is vastly, vastly outnumbered by the number of people who would appreciate customizable preferences, but who don't really know how to compile or customize code.)
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I've been thinking the solution for some (SOME!) of these things is this:
Cog just reads the preference (from the plist), but has no UI for it.
You'd paste some "defaults" command into the terminal to get whatever effect you want. In the future, when GUI plugins are available someone could very well write a plugin that taps into these advanced preferences. It'd be kind of like mozilla's about:config, but hopefully we can keep Cog.
Apple kind of does this with some things. There's the 2d dock, where 99% of users are likely fine with the 3D one, but there's that 1% that hate excess dimensions.