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Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:32:21 -0500
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On 09/02/2013 04:36 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote:
> Transitioning to GTK+ 3.x will be a huge hassle.  It really is quite
> hostile to multi-key keybindings, for example...

On 09/02/2013 05:10 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote:> it is justified
 > because of the large set of available actions. Of course people
 > customize to gschems multi-key interface may want very strongly to keep
 > it.

Yes, I want to keep it.  It's easy to set up many actions triggered by keys and
I don't want to lose multi-key keybindings.

On 09/03/2013 03:41 PM, Markus Hitter wrote:> You can reach about 80 keys without modifier on a standard keyboard, which should be 
plenty

Not if you want them left hand reachable so you can be a keyboard and mouse speed layer outer.
Not everything is autorouting and clean up.  There's more RF needed every day.