GNOME Lands GtkShortcutsWindow, New Help Overlay GTK Widget

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Lands GtkShortcutsWindow, New Help Overlay GTK Widget

One of the new additions so far in the GTK+ 3.19 development code in the road leading to the March release of GTK+ 3.20 is a new GtkShortcutsWindow widget that landed in Git yesterday...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GTK-GtkShortcutsWindow

[Daktyl198]

So... why is this it's own widget?

[justmy2cents]

So... why is this it's own widget?

one really does not have to be rocket scientist to know why. to provide uniform handling and presentation over all gnome applications.

[uid313]

This would be a very nice addition to IDEs.

Such as GNOME Builder, Anjuta, Xamarin Studio, etc.

[justmy2cents]

This would be a very nice addition to IDEs.

Such as GNOME Builder, Anjuta, Xamarin Studio, etc.

in fact, this work was originally done for Gnome Builder and then landed into Gtk

[Marc Driftmeyer]

This is excellent and will come in hand, allowing app developers to have their custom short-cuts accessible quickly. Blender, Pitivi, Darktable, Inkscape, etc., could all benefit from it.