On 9/28/11 10:45 AM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wednesday, 28 de September de 2011 08:20:38 [email protected] wrote: >> Happy to add it to the lighthouse plugin if someone comes up with a >> proposal. The API required for this should be rather simple. Basically >> something to register global shortcuts and a signal when one of them >>gets >> triggered. > >I'm sure it's simple, but maybe not that simple. The API needs to deal >with >the case that you ask for a shortcut but you don't get it because either >the >system denied you access to it or because something else already is using >it. >In order to implement shortcut editing dialogs, there should also be an >API to >query whether a given combination is available or already taken. Yes, I was oversimplifying a bit :) > >What's more, Wayland still has no global shortcut API (I talked to the >maintainer yesterday to confirm this), so it would be nice if people got >involved in the project to start discussing how to standardise this. I don't think that has to stop us from doing an API for Lighthouse. We have X11, Win and Mac to test and validate the API against. That being said, it'd be good if Wayland will get this at some point. > >> Only other issue is that shortcut handling (QShortCut) is currently in >> QtWidgets, not QtGui. The problem here is that someone needs to >> disentangle the class from QAction and other classes that should stay in >> widgets. > >Long ago, when we started talking about gestures, I had a dream about >having a >semantic level above the raw events. Touch events, mouse events, keyboard >events, tablet events, etc., are raw: they convey what action the user >did, >but not what the user meant to do. There should be an interpretation >layer >that is capable of interpreting multiple event sources over time and give >a >resulting semantic. For example, imagine the case of zooming: it can be a >key >press (ZoomIn key), Ctrl+Mouse Button 4 (Ctrl+WheelUp) or a two-finger >pinch. Yes, it would be nice to get to this, but it is a can of worms to open :) While it'd be great if someone starts looking into it, I don't think we should aim at having something in 5.0. Cheers, Lars > >-- >Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center > PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: > E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 >_______________________________________________ >Qt5-feedback mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback _______________________________________________ Qt5-feedback mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt5-feedback
