Re: ANNOUNCE: Deskbar Applet 0.3 (keybindings)

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

Hi Nigel,

Once you handle the global keypress you can do whatever you want. 
Tomboy also has a keybinding (Alt-F12 by default) that presents the 
applet's note menu.

There is already a dependency on libegg: tomboykeybinder.c already 
relies on eggaccelerators.c.

I think it is a bad idea to make the global keybinding more accessible 
to apps... really there should be a central API that integrates with 
GConf to store keys sequences and command actions which integrates with 
gnome-keybinding-properties (which has a static action list today). 
This would avoid global keybinding conflicts and allow altering them in 
a single place.

-Alex

Nigel Tao wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:58 +0200, Johan Svedberg wrote:
>
> > * Jun 15 10:22 Nigel Tao <nigel tao myrealbox com>:
> >
> > > And as a full-blown application, Epiphany gets a global keyboard
> > > shortcut, which (AFAICT) an applet cannot.
> >
> > I think it can, IIRC tomboy does this.
>
>
> Off the top of my head (I currently don't have tomboy installed, so I
> might be just plain wrong), tomboy has a shortcut to open a new window
> (i.e., a new note), but I want a shortcut to shift focus to an existing
> window (or, more precisely, a GtkEntry inside an applet inside a panel).
> This may or may not be an important difference.  I tried to code
> something up a number of months back, pre-2.10, but got stuck.  It might
> be easier now, with the new request_focus API.  One more for the TODO
> list, I guess.  :)
>
> Also, possibly off-topic, tomboy's keybinding code is some Xlib magic,
> written in C (as opposed to the rest of Tomboy, in C#), rather than a
> GNOME or GTK API.  If I wanted to re-use the code, but not just blind
> copy-and-paste, what's the process for bumping such a thing up into
> GNOME, and where should it live?  libegg?
>
> Nigel.
>
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