These patches add an option to the AutoKey configuration menu to allow popup
menu items to be triggered by a configurable initial, rather than the number in
the list. These patches apply to the GTK version of AutoKey, because I don't
use the Qt version.
The attached tarball (.tar.xz) file contains .diff files relative to the
AutoKey package root. On my system, /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/autokey/.
I began my development work on this with autokey-gtk 0.90.4, installed on
Debian Wheezy using the .deb obtained from the Ubuntu PPA.
To use once installed and loaded, load the preferences window
(Edit/Preferences), and the option under Popup Menu will appear. It is labeled
right now "Trigger menu item by first initial." However, not only the first
initial can be used. If the name of a menu item contains an underscore ('_'),
the next character will be used as that trigger. This will replace the
numbered list AutoKey normally would generate. Don't like this feature?
Uncheck "Trigger menu item by first initial," and it returns to its old
behavior.
Some background: I use Keyboard Maestro on my MacBook Pro issued to me for
work. This is a great program. I see AutoKey on Linux being even greater,
however. Anyway, Keyboard Maestro calls its popup menu for macros with the
same trigger "conflict resolution" dialogs, and orders it by the name of the
menu item. Sadly, which key acts as the trigger for these is not configurable,
and if KM decides to use the same key for two macros, it opens another conflict
resolution dialog. I was happy when the underscore worked for AutoKey.
This is my first serious foray into Python development. Thanks for making
AutoKey well laid out, making this task much easier!
Original issue reported on code.google.com by trey.bla...@gmail.com on 6 Feb 2015 at 9:15
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