[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#370482: multiple locations for keyboard shortcuts

[Simon Huggins]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 03:14:16PM -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On 6/5/2006 3:05 PM, Rodrigo Coacci wrote:
> > Hum, I understand the problem, but that leads me to another
> > question: why do we need 2 apps with/managing keyboard shortcuts?
> > OTOH, couldn't you just disable one in favor of the other?
> No.  The WM shortcuts are for things like minimising or maximising
> windows, moving between workspaces, moving windows around, etc.  This
> stuff happens inside the WM, so at present they need to be there.
> (Though theoretically another app could probably do most of it using
> libwnck/libnetk, but it would take a bit of work to write.)

> The shortcut editor in the keyboard settings is just a generic "press
> this key and we'll run this command" type thing.  It doesn't know how to
> manipulate the WM, or do pretty much anything else.  This stuff used to
> be a part of the WM, but was moved out since it didn't make sense there.

I think a good solution could be to have one settings plugin which
manges the configuration for both.  After all they are both just config
files.

That way to the user one "app" (i.e. settings plugin) can "manage the
keys" (i.e. write the config files) but to the developers the keys are
dealt with by two different programs the xfwm4 and xfce-mcs-manager via
the shortcut plugin (right?).  The advantage of having one settings
plugin for both avoiding clashes at least seems obvious to me.

You need some "hey, look at your config files" signal but you already
have that for xfwm4.

Does this not make sense to anyone else then?

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