build 8.2-760, Read activity and ebook mode - how to make them work together?

[NoiseEHC]

> In any case, I brought this idea less due to the customization idea,
> and more due to the expressed desire to have a list of available
> keyboard shortcuts.  It sounded like you were proposing a system by
> which they appeared all at once -- as hovering bubbles, perhaps? -- on
> screen contextual to the control they related to.  That sounds
> interesting, but extremely complicated to do. On the other hand, it
> might not be too much to generate a list of those available somehow.
> Did I misunderstand what you were saying?  Thanks for any
> clarification.
>   
Actually I did not think that far ahead... :)
My main problem was that there was no way (at least there was no way I 
have known about) to change tabs on the toolbar. (I will use Windows 
slang here since I am not a Sugar programmer yet.) Since the exit button 
is on the Activity tab which usually has no useful function for me (I 
only used to read stuff on the XO), every time I have to exit, I have to 
click on the left side for the Activity tab, and then click on the right 
side for the exit button (which is a very bad design IMHO). Reading a 
big pdf file is similar since zooming and jumping to a page is on 
different tabs.
For the first problem I think there is an accelerator key (Ctrl+Q?) but 
every time I use it, I forget next time I start the application.
For the second problem it would be good if there would be some shortcut 
for the "menus" (tabs on the toolbar). It would make the toolbar similar 
to the ribbon control from M$ but who cares?
Now if somehow somebody would implement those thing there is the next 
problem which is that I will forget every accelerator/shortcut promptly 
so there should be some way to show them to my face.
> Perhaps the list is revealed upon press of alt or ctrl (of course
> filtered appropriate to the modifiers pressed), instead of in a
> palette.  Of course, then you have the problem that you might want to
> alt-click on something, or alt-drag something, and such a window could
> get in the way.  I'm not sure the best way to go about it, but let's
> keep ideating around it. It sounds promising.  For it to work well,
> we'd have to have a way to detect all available accelerators,
> probably, so the activities don't have to set it all up on their own.
> I'm not sure how that would work either.
>   
My thinking was that every function is accessible from the toolbar, so 
every accelerator should have a button, and every button should have a 
hint (with the accelerator in the text). So all I was thinking that if 
somebody presses the Alt key it should underline the shortcut letters in 
the "menu" text (the text labels on the toolbar tabs), and every time 
somebody presses the Ctrl key it should show all hints for all the 
buttons for the active tab on the toolbar. All the available shortcuts 
for all the controls should probably go to the activity's documentation 
IMHO.
Now for the Alt+Click and Ctrl+Click problem: it should only show hints 
when the Ctrl key is pressed for 2 seconds (or 1?) and the mouse cursor 
have not been moving during this period. Moving the mouse would cancel 
it. If you implement it then what would be very important is that this 
"gesture" should be generated by Sugar so the application could handle 
it as a key press (and should not need to measure time, etc). Also 
Sugar/GTK should supply a simple method which would show all the hints.
Another idea: there should be some key to cycle the tabs on the toolbar 
(Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab ?). It would be time to define the control 
focusing behavior while changing tabs as well.