Re: [PLUG] Linux for Mac

["Kevin McAllister" <kevin@mcallister.ws>]

On 28 Apr 2014, at 17:08, Rich Freeman wrote:

> Honestly, this is one of the things I really like about KDE - there is
> a really good framework for maintaining both global and
> application-specific shortcuts, and also for managing notifications.

The Mac has been great for keyboard shortcuts forever.  The rule is, if 
there is a menu item for it you can assign your own keyboard short cut 
for it using their Keyboard System Preferences pane.  Here's the 
official doc: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13916

You can do it per-application or systemwide.  Then people who really 
want to tweak stuff will add Applescript or other scripts to write 
Services and assign keyboard shortcuts to that.  Or they use tools like 
Quicksilver or Alfred.  Which in addition to their launching and using 
some apps features also allow scripting of actions.  I prefer Launchbar 
http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

If you do get interested in this sort of stuff I recommend finding the 
guys who share lots of services/tools for using the Mac.  The first one 
that comes to mind is Brett Terpstra http://brettterpstra.com

Also if you want a good editor that is built for the Mac you can go for 
BBEdit.  It's got some obvious emacs influence, and it's been around 
forever. There are others people like like Sublime Text.  I generally 
use emacs I build using Homebrew.

They do have a notifications framework, many people who really want to 
tweak notifications buy Growl to do the work.  I prefer not to see most 
notifications.

Much of the software I mentioned is closed source and sold by the 
developers.  Some of them, like Bare Bones (BBEdit) have been selling 
and supporting their software on the Apple platforms for over 20 years.
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