On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 19:16 +0300, Xan Lopez wrote: > 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.
Well, right. That's why I mentioned XSettings, which can then be accessed with the GtkSettings API. In fact, even after GSettings/dconf, I think it would make sense to have an XSetting, since it can be picked up by other toolkits as well. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
