global keybindings

[Paul Barton-Davis <pbd op net>]

what's the latest word on how to do global key bindings ?

i have an app in which i want focus to direct keystrokes to a specific
handler more or less all the time. that is, i don't care what widget
the pointer is in, 95% of the time, i just want my handler to take
care of it. this seems hard, especially when button presses and the
like grab keyboard focus away from the former widget (though I suppose
i could turn it off).

i can think of two approaches, the key snooper and the skimpily
documented stuff on gtk_binding_*(). i'm not sure what the latter is
for, however. there is also going through every widget and turning
CAN_FOCUS off, and then doing focusing "by hand" ... doesn't seem right.

any opinions or information ?

--p