Re: String freeze request for mutter

[Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com>]

śr., 14 kwi 2021 o 23:15 Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org> napisał(a):
> 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.

The change makes sense to be included in a stable release, so here’s 2/2.

Best,

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Piotr Drąg
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