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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed. As long as it works consistently with other similar controls in 
the user's system, most users figure it out fine on their own - unless 
you throw a wall of text at them. That just turns off most people right 
away, I've found. I wasn't particularly happy with the wall of text in 
the project rescue dialog either, but couldn't think of a better way in 
that case.

Tooltip it is. Also I think I can make it more obvious in general from 
the UI.

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 10:33:40AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> A tool tip might prove useful rather than adding instructions to the
> dialog itself.
> 
> On 1/6/2016 10:30 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> > Just a small note:
> > I think it would be good to also somehow carry over the text on how to change hotkeys like it was in the old dialog.
> > I didn’t change a hotkey before and I didn’t knew if/how to do it before I tried the old dialog in the old version (and read the description there).
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Bernhard
> > 
> >> On 06 Jan 2016, at 16:19, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Okay, a couple of bugs have been pointed out to me related to how wx 
> >> handles "special" keys in various controls. Apparently OSX users can't 
> >> set hotkeys at *all*, and on other platforms certain keys can't be set. 
> >> I'm working on a fix for this, probably will have to rip out that bit of 
> >> the logic and rewrite.
> >>
> >> I'm not going to submit a new patch until it's fully tested on all 
> >> platforms, with all keys and in all of the applications. That'll take a 
> >> few days. In the meantime, hotkey assignment is somewhat broken. Wayne, 
> >> feel free to revert 6422 and 6424 if you want (or don't, it's up to 
> >> you), I'll have a working version soon.
> >>
> >> Apologies for the buggy noise. I'll have to test wx-related things 
> >> rather more thorougly in the future.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Chris
> >>
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