[Konsole-devel] Re: AppScreen support for konsole keytab

[Lars Doelle]

Don, your patch is fine and a good idea, too, i think.
I'd vote to apply the patch.

-lars

On Thursday 12 August 2004 17:09, Don Mahurin wrote:
> Can I perhaps bribe someone to fix bug 76976 (patch to fix attached to
> bug report)?
>
> $20 on paypal?

At least sometimes, we prefer code ;^)

>
> -don
>
> ---
>
> Can someone please look at adding Adding AppScreen support in keytab.
> The AppScreen logic already existed, but the ability to switch keys with
> it was missing.
> A simple patch to fix this is included in the bug report below
> (currently Unconfirmed status. perhaps 'wishlist' is not strong enough).
>
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76976
>
> One thing is often supported by editors or text windows in windows, kde,
> gnome, motif is shift selecting.
> Currently, if one needs to have shift selecting in a console editor in
> konsole, there is a conflict with the shift scrolling. Sure, I can
> redefine the keys not to do shift scrolling. But there is no reason not
> to be able to do both. Allowing the keys to depend on AppScreen in the
> keytab allows this. Editors like vi and fte will have AppScreen set, so
> shift or alt can be used for a different purpose than when outside of an
> editor.
>
> I wrote the ncurses front end to the fte editor, fte.sourceforge.net.
> And yes I wanted shift select to work, along with console scrolling.
>
> -don