Re: gconf key for the equivalent of F7?

[Xan Lopez <xan gnome org>]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm 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

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