Hi Peter, Wow, these proposals are getting pretty thorough. :) I only have a couple comments...
On 4/11/07, Peter Parente <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > == Target > LSR relies on modules already included in GNOME releases. One possible > new dependency is desktop-file-utils from freedesktop.org > (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/desktop-file-utils). We are > uncertain if this package is already included with GNOME. If adding it desktop-file-utils is already an official external dependency; as per http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/ExternalDependencies. > We have already done most of the work by creating a new Accessibility > panel for the GNOME Preferred Applications dialog. In this panel, a > user may choose his or her preferred assistive technologies based on > function. The necessary patches against GNOME 2.17 have already been > reviewed and commented on by the proper module maintainers. Some > members of the GNOME, Ubuntu, and Fedora communities have also > contributed. Our patches need to be updated for GNOME 2.19 and > committed. (http://live.gnome.org/GAP/ScratchPad/PreferredApplications) So I'm one of the blokes standing in the way. One of the bugs listed on that wiki page is bug 387973 ("add a keybinding to start the visual assistive technology"). In particular, I dislike stealing Ctrl-Alt-[a-z] from apps[1], but additionally, I think if we do use such keybindings then Ctrl-Alt-s would make much more sense for switching screen focus (bug 101659) than for visual assitive technology program launcher. So I think bug 387973 should switch from ctrl-alt-s either way. But the ctrl-alt-[a-z] discussion in general does need to be had... So, we need to discuss what kinds of keybindings we should use. Calum does make some good points for stealing Ctrl-Alt-[a-z] in bug 387973 comment 3, but I would really like to avoid more bugs like bug 395645 (metacity and other apps breaks apps by stealing keybindings from applications). Right now I basically don't care about bug 395645 (duh, emacs wants every key in the universe instead of restricting to combinations with alphanumeric keys and it'd be unreasonable to let it have everything) but I'm worried about what the trend is and whether other things will break (to a reasonable limit, of course). Personally, I think stealing Ctrl-Alt-[a-z] strokes by default could be bad, though it may be that I'm just clinging unrealistically to my beloved isearch-forward-regexp. ;-) Thoughts? Elijah [1] Yes, I think Ctrl-Alt-D and Ctrl-Alt-L were bad choices on the part of various GNOME modules. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
