Re: ANNOUNCE: Deskbar Applet 0.3 (keybindings)

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

Well, we can enforce no conflicts without going through a third party, 
right?  The UI enforces no conflicts, and the library checks that a 
keybinding is not already taken at bind time (allowing the app to prompt 
the user if it is).

It isn't as though a third party gives any better form of conflict 
avoidance... apps can still bind using X manually, which is what is done 
today.

-Alex

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 11:57 -0700, Alex Graveley wrote:
>
>
> > I think the global binding problem can be solved by just designating a 
> > GConf path that apps install a keybinding action into.  Then create a 
> > library with tomboykeybinder.c that apps call into with the GConf paths 
> > they are interested in.  The library reads the GConf binding keys for 
> > the app and registers the X root window event handler.
>
>
> 	Hold on, isn't the main issue here that you want a single X client to
> be responsible for all the global keygrabs in order to avoid conflicts?
> A convenience API seems kinda secondary ...
>
> 	(We fixed this in the panel by moving the shortcuts to metacity and
> adding a ClientMessage protocol which metacity uses when the shortcuts
> are invoked)
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.