Re: Missing buttons in keybindings capplet

[Erwann Chénedé <erwann chenede sun com>]

Hi Mark,

Mark McLoughlin wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:31, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>  
>
> > If you take a look at:
> >
> > http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.2/goscustdesk-39.html
> >
> > You'll see the keybindings capplet has three buttons for manipulating
> > shortcuts.  However, I these buttons don't exist in control-center
> > 2.2.0.1 on FreeBSD.  In looking at the keybindings glade file, the
> > buttons clearly are not there.  I looked through CVS, and I can't find
> > where they ever existed.  Is this a documentation bug, or am I missing
> > something obvious?  Thanks.
> >    
>
> 	Its a Sun specific patch - and since the Sun docs guys (and gals) did
> the users guide, its one of those discrepancies that is hard to avoid
> without magicing up some resources from somewhere ... cc-ed
> gnome-doc-list, I'm sure someone there will explain better.
>
> 	The patch itself is in CVS:
>
> sun-patches/gnome-control-center/060-00000.diff
>
> 	No bugzilla id with it, no comment on whether or not the patch was
> rejected by the gnome-control-center maintainers - all against Sun's
> policies for our patches ... Frenchie, what's the deal ? :-)
This patch was rejected by the maintainers at the time I implemented 
this feature (back in 08/02).

The main reason, afair,was that they didn't like the GUI. Also another 
plan was to remove all the
keybindings from the panel and gnome-settings-daemon and put all the 
keybinding handling in the WM
to avoid i18n issues and key conflicts but at the time Havoc wasn't to 
pushed to add arbitrary number
of keybinding/command combinations in metacity.

As for the patch in sun-patches status, the Sun policy didn't exist at 
the time I wrote the stuff and
I never went back and correct it when the policy was put in place. This 
is fixed now :)

   Cheers,

         Erwann

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Erwann Chénedé, Sun Microsystems, Ireland
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[ I speak for myself, not for my employer ]