Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] global keyboard shortcuts / HIG over bluetooth remote control

["Joel Duggan" <joelduggan gmail com>]

Just a further note on this.

I too have a multimedia keyboard.  The keys work fine for Rhythmbox.
Totem does not repsond to them when RB is running, regardless of which
is opened first.

JDuggan

On 7/13/06, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 13:27 +1000, James "Doc" Livingston wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 18:09 +0100, Peter wrote:
> > > I could make one for Rhythmbox - but it looks like it would be much
> > > easier to use if Rhythmbox supported global keyboard shortcuts
> > > (otherwise the remote control would only work if rhythmbox was the
> > > active window).
> > >
> > > Is global keyboard shortcuts something you have planned?  Possibly as a
> > > plugin?  (I did search, but didn't see a bug for global keyboard shortcuts).
> >
> > We already support X's "media" keys, XF86MediaNext and the like. If your
> > keyboard settings are set up correctly, you should be able to press the
> > "next" and "previous" keys on your keyboard (assuming of course you have
> > a keyboard with them) and control RB.
> >
> > To me it would make much more sense to synthesise those key events.
>
> The only problem being that you cannot synthesis a key event if the
> Keysym doesn't exist in the keymap. The XTest bits only support sending
> keycodes, so you need to make sure this keycode maps to the keysym
> you're interested in.
>
> There's a function in ATK (iirc) that generates key events with a
> special keysym, but it does exactly what you would expect it to:
> - bind "empty" keycode to keysym
> - generate event with keycode
> - cross fingers and hope the piece of crap doesn't race
>
> > > Incidentally, I think it would be great to use the same global keyboard
> > > shortcuts as Amarok - e.g. WIN+B for next track.
> >
> > How does it interact with other global keyboard shortcuts (e.g. I have a
> > number of things from Gnome's "Keyboard Shortcuts" preferences tool set
> > to Win-<key>).
> >
> > Also, setting global keyboard shortcuts probably gets nasty if several
> > apps want to do it. Particularly if they are running at once, e.g. if
> > Totem did it as well as your music player.
>
> This is a discussion that started a long time ago. Totem only gets the
> event when it's focused, people say it's not useful. Rhythmbox grabs it
> for the whole desktop. What happens if Rhythmbox is started first and
> Totem can't grab it? What happens when Totem is focused and Rhythmbox
> running?
>
> I think it might be useful to setup a small D-Bus API for use by media
> players, and have the gnome-settings-daemon generate those events,
> rather than rely (solely) on the multimedia keys.
>
> 1. List the actions that keyboard keys allow (play/pause, next,
> previous, etc.) that require special handling
> 2. Setup an API in a couple of players that would allow those actions
> through D-Bus
> 3. Modify gnome-settings-daemon to generate those calls when the
> specificed key (and the proper key) is pressed
> 4. (this is the tricky bit) think of a way of selecting which media
> player gets the events in a non-obtrusive way (tray icon in case of
> conflict?)
>
> Comments?
>
> --
> Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
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