... > Thats a valid concern, and might be an argument for moving the hotkey > selection > out to the individual apps' preference dialogs. Of course, in that > case we should > use the same ui for this everywhere to avoid things like we currently > see in beagle-search or tomboy... and we need to handle conflicts, > which is of course > much easier in a central keybinding capplet.
Yes - speaking of conflicts, global keybindings tend to generate serious problems for screenreader users, since screenreaders (as "meta apps") must rely heavily on global keybindings. Collision is almost inevitable - thus there is a strong need to: 1) keep the global keybindings to a minimum 2) allow keybinding sets to be replaced very simply (i.e. replace with an 'orca friendly' set, for instance...) 3) ideally the global keybindings would all use a common modifier key or small set of keys, and this "meta" key could be changed in a global place. This last suggestion would at least allow competing global-keybinding-customers (like for instance orca and the gnome desktop) to avoid collision by choosing non-intersecting modifier sets. In short, I think that any extension of global keybindings in Gnome needs to be accompanied by such collision-avoidance work. Best regards Bill _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
