If we do something like this, I think it's important to present the UI in a way which isn't overwhelming. Having a bunch of apps that I've never heard about and never run populating a huge list in the already-huge keybindings dialog would be undesirable. No real ideas here, just something to watch out for...
-Alex Matthias Clasen wrote: > On 8/6/06, Nigel Tao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Deskbar-applet has this aswell (same code). I think GNOME needs some API >>> for registering global keybindings. IIRC someone did some work on >>> providing an actual UI for user defined keybindings (instead of the >>> current mess with gconf). Isn't it logical to give apps a way to hook in >>> to this aswell? >> Yeah, I think that a generic keybinding API would be useful. I >> remember collecting a list of keybinding bugs somewhere due to the >> fact that there's a bunch of duplicated code that's slightly >> different. Things like <Super>space works as a keybinding for Open >> Terminal (handled by gnome-control-center???) but doesn't work for >> metacity's run-custom-command thingies (or vice versa??). I suppose I >> could dig up the bugzilla IDs, hang on... >> >> Would it make sense to have a single D-Bus service where tomboy, >> deskbar, metacity, etc. (and don't forget our KDE friends) can just >> say "notify me on <Alt>F12", or is that just total crack and should we >> just have a traditionally linked libkeybinder instead? > > I had envisioned that this could be implemented by having apps install > small xml files in a well-known place > which contain a translated name/description of an > action they want to make available via a global keybinding, plus a > command to run in that case. > > Of course, bringing in D-Bus and other gizmos would crank up the > coolness factor... > > Matthias > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
