kxmlgui shortcuts regression

[Michael Jansen]

Hi Robert

No. It think i remember you implementing something to synchronize  
shortcuts. Some signaling or possible d-bus stuff.

Mike


Zitat von Robert Knight <robertknight at gmail.com>:

>> I think we have to wait for Davids opinion on that matter. But if  
>> iirc i have
>> seen Robert Knight fighting in konsole with something that looks  
>> like what you
>> report. Am i right robert?
>
> The problem in Konsole was deciding whether to send shortcuts to the
> host (eg. Kate) or
> to the terminal when they were pressed while the terminal had focus -
> because a shortcut like Ctrl+C for example is used in both.
> Right now the behavior we use is to send single modifier shortcuts to
> the terminal by default and give the host a way
> to override them by responding to a signal from the part.
>
> Regards,
> Robert.
>
> 2008/9/22 David Faure <faure at kde.org>:
>> On Sunday 21 September 2008, Michael Jansen wrote:
>>> > > Could you please give a use case? I have no idea what you are talking
>>> > > about. But perhaps david can help you as in "know that beast
>>> > > kxmlguiclient".
>>> >
>>> > Lets take KDevelop (though in theory even konqueror with multiple tabs
>>> > should do):
>>> >
>>> > - open two file, you get two tabs. Lets say fileA and fileB
>>> > - Focus fileA and open shortcuts editor
>>> > - change a shortcut thats specific for the xmlgui-client - i.e. not part
>>> >   of the application. In my example I'm changing "Capitalize" which is
>>> >   a katepart shortcut, to Meta+Ctrl+C
>>> > - close the editor via "ok"
>>> > - check wether the shortcut works, for me it does
>>> > - Switch to fileB by clicking on the tab or using Alt+Left/Right,
>>> >   doesn't matter
>>> > - try the shortcut, it doesn't work. Go to the shortcuts editor and see
>>> >   that the shortcut for the action is back to Default, i.e. Ctrl+Alt+U
>>> >   in the case of Capitalize
>>
>> Right.
>> But how is this a "regression"?
>> Did this really work in KDE3? I have very strong doubts about that.
>>
>>> > Now I'm not sure where the error is in this case, wether its the xmlgui
>>> > framework not notifying its clients about changes in the shortcuts, or
>>> > the clients not doing the right thing or wether the app is responsible
>>> > for notifying the clients. But somethings wrong for sure.
>>
>> Yes, something's missing.
>> To take the matter further, what if you had katepart embedded into
>> two different applications, at the same time, and changed shortcuts in
>> one of them? To make both use cases work, I think what we need is
>> DBUS notification. But at the same time, I am not sure we want to
>> register each and every kxmlguiclient to dbus...
>> Another solution would be to use KDirWatch on the file where
>> the shortcuts are saved (that's a local xmlgui file, not kconfig, right?)
>> The third solution is "you must restart your application for these changes
>> to take effect" ;-)
>>
>> --
>> David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
>> Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
>>
>




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