emacs keybindings? alsaconf?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 15:53 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 07:40:42PM -0400, Scott Campbell wrote:
> > 2) Was this option (to choose emacs bindings) deliberately removed from
> > the dialog with Ubuntu? Gnome2.8? Just curious. This seems like the kind
> > of simplicity on might expect from either.
> 
> It was an upstream decision; I'm not sure of the background for it.  I could
> certainly understand things like "emacs keybindings" being confusing to a
> new user.

It didn't actually work in most applications, because menu accelerators
get priority. Removing it was somewhat less confusing than leaving an
option that was inherently broken.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org