Re: Update

["Bradley T. Hughes" <bhughes tcac net>]

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Paul Warren wrote:

> Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:18:18 +0100 (GMT)
> From: Paul Warren <pdw@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk>
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> Subject: Re: Update
> Resent-Date: 20 Jun 1999 12:45:26 -0000
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> On 20 Jun 1999, Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> > To my (limited) knowledge, the GNOME WM spec currently has info on:
> > 	. pager interaction
> > 	. window style hinting/layers.
> > 	. mouse click event routing for root window clicks.
> > These are the major things that the desktop needs. There may be
> > features to be taken from the kwm hints, as well.
> 
> OK.  One thing that I have heard requested many times is connecting a
> hotkey to the Gnome foot menu (eg. that nasty windows keys that most
> people seem to have).  I think this possibly comes under the wm-spec,
> although I'm not sure how best to implement it.  My first idea would be to
> have it as a proxying thing like the current root window scheme, but
> there's probably a neater solution.  Any ideas?

with XGrabKey... there is no need to have to do the infernal event proxy...
and in doing so it is beyond the scope of the wmspec...

> I think that as far as allocating the key goes, the app should say to the
> window manager "I would like a hotkey", and it is up to the wm to decide
> which key it uses at the hotkey.  
> 
> Do we want to extend it to work with several possible hotkeys?  Using just
> one would be limiting - I have three such keys on my keyboard...  In my
> ideal world I'd have one connected to the foot menu, and one connected to
> the pager...
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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