Re: Global keybindings in GNOME

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Nigel Tao wrote:
> The problem (which I think Alex Gravely originally raised) is that if
> you want to run a different WM (e.g. running Tomboy on XFCE), then
> apps have got to roll their own keybindings, rather than rely on
> metacity.  So, after all this debate out getting Tomboy into GNOME,
> let's discuss letting Tomboy play nice outside of GNOME...  ;-)

Age-old issue... the solutions are the same as for every other case,
 - write some kind of spec
 - write some kind of library and get people to use it
 ...

> Also there was (at least the state of play a year ago when I last
> looked - maybe this has migrated to GTK since)
> libegg/treeviewutils/eggaccelerators.{h,c} for parsing things like the
> string "<Alt>F12", which is more than just what XGrabKey gives you,
> and should really be somewhere other than egg.  But maybe it already
> is (or am I getting confused with GtkCellRendererAccel??), and I'm
> just old-fashioned (and should remove
> deskbar-applet/deskbar/keybinder/eggaccelerators.*).

Someone just cleaned this up, I think.  I saw it go by in bugzilla.

Havoc