Re: Keyboard shortcut prefs - can we close this bug ?

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 13:31 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> --- karderio <karderio gmail com> wrote:
> > 
> > Doh ! Sorry.
> 
> No problem :)
>  
> > Maybe we could just explain the shortcuts
> > configurable in the Keyboard
> > Shortcuts preference tool here, and have a separate
> > section for the
> > other general, non configurable shortcuts...
> 
> Indeed.
> But we need to know where the list of these shortcuts
> is. Presumably there is somewhere on the system a file
> that this preftool gets the list from.

The shortcuts are defined in the source code of metacity.
See
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/metacity/src/prefs.c?view=markup
See towards the end of the file (around %60) or search for any of the
strings from

static MetaSimpleKeyMapping screen_string_bindings[] = {
  { META_KEYBINDING_WORKSPACE_LEFT,         "<Control><Alt>Left"         },
  { META_KEYBINDING_WORKSPACE_RIGHT,        "<Control><Alt>Right"        },



You may also find useful the file
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/metacity/src/metacity.schemas.in?view=markup


Simos

>  
> > Hmm, I'm wondering what logic a user could find to
> > this : as I
> > understand it, the Keyboard Shortcuts preference
> > tool configures
> > shortcuts monitored by Metacity - all other
> > shortcuts are managed by
> > individual apps whose shortcuts (or at least some of
> > them) are
> > configured by using the "editable menu accelerators"
> > from the Menu and
> > Toolbar preference tool (btw, I'm no great fan of
> > this system).
> 
> Neither am I.
> It allows the user to break consistency across apps.
> If you change the shortcut for Copy, then it should
> remain consistent across the whole desktop.
> 
> GNOME is full of these little problems that reflect a
> lack of coherence. Someone obviously thought it would
> be a good feature, but didn't work with what's already
> there and didn't think of the consequences. And
> getting this changed now will probably be impossible.
> /rant.
> 
> > So I'd guess from this that perhaps, maybe, keyboard
> > shortcuts should be
> > documented per application.
> 
> They tend to be, yes.
> 
> 
> 
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