Re: Running vs starting apps [rambled to: global shortcuts]

[Blair Strang <Blair Strang chelmer co nz>]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 07:02:17 delmar watkins wrote:
> Would it be possible to trap the commands, such as  copy,
> paste, save, etc. so
> that if one does the above trick, it then becomes a global
> hotkey for ALL
> similar commands in gnome? 

Hmmm, what you are describing sounds like a perfect fit
for GConf - there could be a standard set of hotkey "keys"
used by applications. when a user changes one of those
"global" hotkey settings, all interested GNOME apps would 
be notified of the change.  (This woud however involve 
adding code to all existing GNOME apps).

  http://developer.gnome.org/feature/current/index.html

I guess one could even have a GNOME-wide "hotkey profiles" 
capplet - with settings like "windoze", "macintoy", "be-loss", 
etc, and the ability to customise from there... That would be
neat-o  :-)

Blair.

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