Re: Global keybindings in GNOME

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

If we do something like this, I think it's important to present the UI 
in a way which isn't overwhelming.  Having a bunch of apps that I've 
never heard about and never run populating a huge list in the 
already-huge keybindings dialog would be undesirable.  No real ideas 
here, just something to watch out for...

-Alex

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On 8/6/06, Nigel Tao <nigel tao gnome gmail com> wrote:
> > > Deskbar-applet has this aswell (same code). I think GNOME needs some API
> > > for registering global keybindings. IIRC someone did some work on
> > > providing an actual UI for user defined keybindings (instead of the
> > > current mess with gconf). Isn't it logical to give apps a way to hook in
> > > to this aswell?
> > Yeah, I think that a generic keybinding API would be useful.  I
> > remember collecting a list of keybinding bugs somewhere due to the
> > fact that there's a bunch of duplicated code that's slightly
> > different.  Things like <Super>space works as a keybinding for Open
> > Terminal (handled by gnome-control-center???) but doesn't work for
> > metacity's run-custom-command thingies (or vice versa??).  I suppose I
> > could dig up the bugzilla IDs, hang on...
> >
> > Would it make sense to have a single D-Bus service where tomboy,
> > deskbar, metacity, etc. (and don't forget our KDE friends) can just
> > say "notify me on <Alt>F12", or is that just total crack and should we
> > just have a traditionally linked libkeybinder instead?
>
> I had envisioned that this could be implemented by having apps install
> small xml files in a well-known place
> which contain a translated name/description of an
> action they want to make available via a global keybinding, plus a
> command to run in that case.
>
> Of course, bringing in D-Bus and other gizmos would crank up the
> coolness factor...
>
> Matthias
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