Review Request: Add keyboard shortcuts to ActivityManager

[makis marimpis]

> On March 24, 2012, 6:12 p.m., Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > I don't think this is the right approach of dealing with the keyboard shortcuts for activities:
> > 
> > - not discoverable
> > - clashes with the filter bar (which is the only way to discover the feature)
> > - doesn't work in general case of user having more than 10 activities
> > - the user needs to open the activity bar, count the #number of the desired activity (the order can change), and then press the key.
> > 
> > I'd rather have it in kactivitymanagerd - to register global shortcuts, and that the user can set them in the system settings where the shortcuts for other programs are set.
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> Ivan Čukić wrote:
>     It can be a plugin for kamd...

Honestly i wasn't satisfied with my initial approach either, i just wanted to fool around with the activitymanager plasma-thingy.
I think i can manage to add global shortcuts.

Now for the plugin part honestly i not quite sure how to implement it, perhaps with proper guidance :D


- makis


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On March 23, 2012, 7:35 p.m., makis marimpis wrote:
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> (Updated March 23, 2012, 7:35 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and Ivan Čukić.
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> Description
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> Adds keyboard shortcuts (0-9) for quick selecting an activity through ActivityManager plasma (Meta + Q).
> My main concern is how to focus to FilterBar; probably add a shortcut like "Ctr+S" via buddy system? (random thought).
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> This addresses bugs 265069 and 273467.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265069
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273467
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> Diffs
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>   plasma/desktop/shell/activitymanager/activitylist.h 09ed686 
>   plasma/desktop/shell/activitymanager/activitylist.cpp 3327cdf 
>   plasma/desktop/shell/activitymanager/activitymanager.cpp 5aeaccf 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104391/diff/
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> Testing
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> Run ActivityManager and select and press a number.
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> Thanks,
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> makis marimpis
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