[Pidgin] #10353: Allow ALT-S to be used for sending message!

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#10353: Allow ALT-S to be used for sending message!
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 Reporter:  key88sf  |        Owner:  rekkanoryo  
     Type:  defect   |       Status:  pending     
Milestone:           |    Component:  unclassified
  Version:  2.6.2    |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:           |  
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Changes (by deryni):

  * status:  new => pending


Comment:

 You could have chosen to interpret my statement to mean that there is
 nothing reasonably to be done about this or you could have chosen to
 interpret it as indicating that there is absolutely no physical way such a
 thing could ever be possible. One of those would have been much more
 helpful than the other, I'm sorry you chose the less helpful route,
 nonetheless you can find my answers below.

 The accelerator for smileys is automatically created because of the markup
 used to make the S underlined, we could change it but that would interfere
 with someone else's preferred key for something so that isn't likely to
 happen.

 We will not forcibly make alt-s be send since not everyone wants that
 (imagine if my original response to your request had been "no, we already
 reserve alt-u for send and we only need the one key for that", and no
 "well just reserve more in code" isn't an option) also I'm sure a fair
 number of people like alt-s opening the smiley dialog. The fact that you
 prefer send to smiley doesn't mean everyone will and doesn't make your
 preference the right one.

 Yes, we could hard grab any key we wanted but that wouldn't be very
 helpful if someone wanted it for something else. Come on, you know this.
 We have tried rather hard to hard-grab as few keys as possible (and still
 get complaints about the few we still grab) adding more is not something
 we will do lightly.

 The closest to reasonable solution to this general sort of problem that I
 can find is one that would swap out the accelerated toolbar/etc. strings
 in pidgin for non-accelerated ones so as to not cause GTK+ to grab them at
 all (but that's only marginally reasonable and not at all trivial to do).

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