Keyboard shortcut settings

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Tue Oct 14 21:05:10 CEST 2008


Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> Am Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:55:57 +0200
> schrieb Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér <morten at technographer.net>:
> 
>> One thing apart from the layout discussion:
>> Is there a specific design reason that keyboard shortcuts are defined
>> in two separate places in the Settings Manager, both in 
>> Window Manager > Keyboard
>> - and in
>> Keyboard > Shortcuts?
> 
> Yes, it's because they are independent from each other. You can use Xfce
> without xfwm4 and you can as well use xfwm4 without Xfce if you like.
> Thus it makes no sense to merge the shortcuts. 

Well, no, that's actually a very poor reason, usability-wise.  But 
unfortunately the implementation is hard to fit into a better user 
interface in this case.

As David suggests, we might try some kind of runtime on-demand 
integration that "knows" whether or not you're running Xfce and thus 
have a 'Keyboard Settings' dialog.  I think Stephan was working on 
something months ago, but decided to postpone it to 4.8.

	-brian




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