On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Shaun McCance <sha...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 09:25 -0400, Willie Walker wrote: >> Hi All: >> >> There is a convention of having the user press F7 to enable caret >> browsing. For example, when running Firefox, one can press F7 to >> enable the caret in the document content and you can then arrow around >> the content and select/copy text. yelp has something similar, which I >> believe is controlled by its "use_caret" gconf key. >> >> I'm curious if there would be any interest/desire in a general >> "caret_navigation" key? Perhaps >> /desktop/interface/gnome/caret_navigation? The general assumption I'm >> making is that if you need caret navigation in one place, you're likely >> to need everywhere. Setting this key can then be managed in one spot >> and not require the user to have to remember to press F7 in each >> application where they need caret navigation. > > Epiphany and Evolution also both respond to F7 to enable > caret navigation. (And, by the way, though Yelp stores > this in GConf, it also responds to F7.) We're seeing > more and more applications use an HTML renderer for core > parts of their interfaces, such as Gwibber, and Empathy > with the Adium theme. > > I also wonder if non-editable GtkTextView widgets should > be doing something here. > > If we had a desktop-wide setting (possibly propagated by > an xsetting), then GTK+/Gecko/WebKit/etc could just pick > it up and do the right thing, without any extra work from > application developers.
This makes sense, but at least for WebKit depending on gconf would be problematic. I guess things will be much easier when we finally start using GSettings. Xan > > -- > Shaun > > > _______________________________________________ > 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