Review Request 127122: [Kate] Back/Forward mouse buttons

[Christoph Cullmann]

> On March 28, 2016, 8:22 p.m., Sven Brauch wrote:
> > Hmm. Do we really need code for that? Can't you simply assign those buttons to the forward / backward actions as shortcuts? Try setting them as alternate shortcuts by default.
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> Anthony Fieroni wrote:
>     This code is needed. QKeySequence is about *only* for keyboard keys. Mouse buttons *must* me handled by event, as far i know.
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> Sven Brauch wrote:
>     Did you actually try that in the shortcut dialog? Please do. I don't have a mouse with extra keys here right now ...
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> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     Just tried, I cannot assign any mouse buttons to shortcuts, including back/forward.
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> Anthony Fieroni wrote:
>     Not only try, i saw the code in kxmlgui who set this shortcuts. It's used QKeySequence who is keyboard specific. You can see the same code as this patch in Dolphin for for/backward.
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> Sven Brauch wrote:
>     Hmm, ok then. I'm undecided, let's wait for a few other opinions. On the one hand, it sounds sensible, on the other hand I don't like hardcoded shortcuts and the use case to switch documents with mouse is ... not a huge one imo. Code looks ok.
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> Nicolás Alvarez wrote:
>     My mouse has back/forward buttons (by tilting the scroll wheel sideways) and I find it super useful in a web browser. But if the buttons were supported in Kate, it's more likely I'd want to configure it for undo/redo rather than document switching.
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> Anthony Fieroni wrote:
>     I was thinking to make a module for kxmlgui, to install event listener for all kxmlgui client and providing configurable mouse + keyboard shortcuts. But i'dont know Martin G or someone else not works on that in KWin ?!
>     I prefer document switch because ctrl+z fits left hand action + mouse ese, alt+left not.

I tried it out, is nice enough for a first go.
If somebody wants to have this configurable, provide some patch for that, I am all for having this user controlled, still, I think some functionality is better than noe.


- Christoph


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On March 28, 2016, 8:20 p.m., Anthony Fieroni wrote:
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> (Updated March 28, 2016, 8:20 p.m.)
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> Review request for Kate, KDE Frameworks, Christoph Cullmann, Dominik Haumann, and Kåre Särs.
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> Repository: kate
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> Description
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> Show prev/next tab on mouse back/forward buttons
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> Diffs
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>   kate/katemainwindow.h ece0db8 
>   kate/katemainwindow.cpp f630e28 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127122/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Anthony Fieroni
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