multimedia keys global shortcuts

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:02:41AM +1100, Seb Ruiz wrote:
>> 2009/2/17 Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com>:
>> >
>> > These days X is good at settings up the play/stop/next/previous multimedia keys
>> > you get on quite a lot of keyboards.  Here's a patch to make use of
>> > them.
>> >
>> > http://www.kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/amarok-global-shortcuts.diff
>>
>> Thanks! But as I see it, this patch will remove our standard global
>> shortcuts for next/prev etc. This would be bad for people who don't
>> have multimedia keys on their keyboards.
>
> Maybe but for people who have them the multimedia keys shortcuts are
> easily discoverable and if they don't work most people would consider
> that a bug.  The current shortcuts are arbitrarily chosen and there's
> no way to discover them short of looking in the dialogue, in which
> case you may as well set them yourself.

Well the more pressing issue is that users who are used to using the
windows key will suddenly find that it doesn't work.

/me has one of those old loud IBM keyboards and has neither a WIN key
or the fancy multimedia keys. :)

Ian