Keyboard shortcut settings

[Vincent]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu>wrote:

> Joost Kremers wrote:
>
> > the problem, i think, lies in the fact that window manager shortcuts are
> a
> > kind of keyboard shortcuts, i.e., the former are a subcategory of the
> > latter. as a user, i would therefore expect the wm shortcuts to be found
> > with the (more general) "keyboard shortcuts".
> >
> > my suggestion: rename the shortcuts under keyboard preferences to
> > "application shortcuts". that is pretty much what they are, and to a
> mortal
> > user the distinction between "window manager shortcuts" and "application
> > shortcuts" makes a lot more sense: wm shortcuts are obviously a different
> > thing from application shortcuts, they're certainly not a subcategory.
>
> Yeah, this isn't a bad idea.  Jannis, what do you think?  Not important
> enough to redo the beta1 package, but we can change it for beta2.
>
> > the question then of course becomes whether application shortcuts should
> > still be in the keyboard settings. personally, i think it would make
> sense
> > to merge them with the "preferred applications" dialogue and rename it to
> > "application management" or something.
>
> Hmm, not sure I'm sold on this.  I'd be much more likely to look for
> keyboard/app shortcuts in a keyboard config dialog than in a preferred
> apps/app management dialog (wth does that even mean?).
>
> I think we're straying from the problem: the issue isn't that the
> keyboard shortcuts for apps is in the keyboard dialog; the problem is
> that the WM shortcuts are in the WM dialog when they should be in the
> keyboard dialog.
>
> Actually, as a simple minimal workaround/fix, we might add a button in
> the keyboard shortcuts dialog to launch the WM settings dialog (with a
> special command-line switch that focuses the WM kbd shortcuts tab) to
> make that a little more discoverable.  I actually like this idea...
>
>        -brian


This is just some crazy thought with no idea what the resulting effect on
performance would be, but how about a command that you could execute to do
something to the currently focused window? That way, you could add keyboard
shortcuts for those commands and manage the window manager keyboard
shortcuts from there.

Apologies if this is a stupid idea,
-- 
Vincent
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