Global Shortcuts
Andreas Pakulat
apaku at gmx.de
Mon Mar 17 09:09:43 GMT 2008
On 17.03.08 03:50:00, Michael Jansen wrote:
> The things that annoy me currently
>
> 1. I don't care for applications registering global shortcuts without telling
> me and without giving me the oppurtunity to disable them. I start a
> application i don't know, accidently press some button combination and
> something happens. Don't like it.
> No global shortcuts without my consent. Basta. A application is allowed to
> advertise actions it thinks are appropriate for global shortcuts, and give
> default values, but after starting the application the first time they
> arent active. It's opt-in.
Great idea for apps like kwin or plamsa, no way of switching the
applications via alt+tab or something like that in a default
installation will make sure we'll soon develop KDE for ourselves again
;)
> 4. I don't like having all shortcuts together in kglobalshortcutsrc. Call it
> personal preference. I think the belong into the kxmlgui.rc file of the
> application.
Or into a shortcut theme file :) Alexander Dymo has recently proposed
that (currently only on the kdevelop-devel list as it still has some
rough edges and its main purpose is to let an application override
shortcuts from a kpart)
> 2. During that registration the component tells kdedglobalaccel the location
> of its kxmlgui*.rc file ( i think that's possible ). kdedglobalaccel would
> need that if the user wants to configure global shortcuts and the
> application is not running. With that information the keys kcm would be
> able to inform you of conflicting shortcuts during configuration. But only
> conflicting shortcuts for active components.
> When the application is active the keys kcm would inform the application
> via dbus of changes. No problem there.
> I thinks it's a one component - one kxmlguiclient*.rc file association.
> Right?
If the application uses KXmlGui. There are apps out there that don't.
> 3. Sometimes later the user activates the global shortcuts for this component
> using the global shortcuts configuration dialog (Some global checkbox).
See above, apps need a way to activate their shortcuts or your desktop
accesibility pretty much falls apart.
Andreas
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