String freeze request for mutter



Hey y'all,

I'd like to request a string freeze request for the upcoming 40.1 release:

 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1814

The strings in question are descriptions of keyboard shortcuts that can be configured in Settings' Keyboard panel, namely the shortcuts for navigating between vertical workspaces.

Those descriptions existed previously, but were removed for GNOME 40 when we switched to a horizontal workspace layout. That turned out to be a problem for users who customize the shortcuts, and want to re-use the same shortcuts with the new layout: The old shortcut conflicts with the new one, but Settings is unable to detect that conflict because it no longer knows about the old shortcut.

For that reason the merge requests adds back the definitions for the old shortcuts, but tells Settings to not show them in the UI. That means most users will never see the string, except when they want to reassign one of the affected shortcuts, and Settings quotes the description in a warning ("<super>j is already used for ¨Move to workspace above¨")

Without the change users that run into the issue have to fiddle with the shortcut configuration on the command line (for example "gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.wm.keybindings switch-to-workspace-up"). In my opinion that's worse than a stray untranslated string in the conflicting-shortcut warning.

Cheers,
Florian




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