Re: [Pan-users] Feedback wanted for Filter rewrite

[Charles Kerr]

>> What I've been working on this week is a dialog version of the old
>> buttonbar where everything has a keyboard shortcut.  So tweaking the
>> filter to show only new, complete binaries would take four keystrokes
>> [shift-f to pull up the filter dialog, alt-b for binaries, alt-n for
>> new, alt-o for the "Ok" button to close the dialog]. 
>
> Why don't you just forget about requiring the OK button? You press
> Shift+F to pull up the dialog and then as you type alt-b and alt-n,
> the changes are automatically applied to the list in the main window
> without having to press OK.

Because then you would have to wait for each change to be applied,
which can take a few seconds on big groups.

And then you still have to type/click to close the dialog anyway.

cheers,
Charles