Re: Global keybindings in GNOME

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

I don't see these two as being very different from a user's perpective. 
 Given how long the list in the capplet is today, I already just guess 
when setting a keybinding there, and rely on the app to show me a 
conflict.

-Alex

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Since bindings are a global resource really there are two options for 
> avoiding conflict:
>   - foist it off on users - when they install an offending app, a dialog
>     comes up like "this app wants to bind F12. the desktop has already
>     bound F12" then the user chooses F11 instead and a new dialog is all
>     "such-and-such already has F11. try again!" and so forth...
>     not good.
>   - have a centrally maintained list of global bindings that don't
>     conflict