GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 145525
Hotkey needed for revert
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
i use gedit to watch the java registry (a.k.a Preferences) file and need to see after each run of my java program if changes were made in that file. editplus(.com) on windows automatically shows a pop up message when the viewed file has changed. this is a very useful feature. the fastest solution would be adding a hotkey to the Revert option. a hotkey that will not require a manual confirmation each time the file is reverted to the saved version (cause that would be annoying just like doing alt+f -> r -> alt+r).
See also bug #143943.
Automatic notification of external changes to a file is something that would indeed be nice and such a request (and a first cut of patch implemented using gnome-vfs monitors) is already filed in bug #75861 Apart from that I think that a keyboard shortcut for "Revert" could be considered even if yours is an edge case... normally I don't think that "revert" is a very common operation. Even if such a shortcut was added, the confirmation dialog should stay since revert is a potentially dangerous operation and we must make sure it isn't called by mistake. So, in short I see 3 possiblities for this bug: - mark it as dup of #75861 and wait for the complete solution - add a keyboard shortcut for revert - decide that revert is not common enough and thus mark this as WONTFIX
This is a duplicate of bug #114215. As Paolo B. said, reverting a file is a potentially dangerous operation and so the confirmation dialog should be not removed. I don't think "revert" is a commot enough command to require a keyword shortcut. See also http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/menus-standard.html#the-file-menu *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114215 ***
oh.... just make it ctrl+shift+r or even worse, but not adding a hotkey because it's not common enough? are you out of keys dude or what?