Re: gconf key for the equivalent of F7?

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Thanks Shaun!

> Epiphany and Evolution also both respond to F7 to enable
> caret navigation.  (And, by the way, though Yelp stores
> this in GConf, it also responds to F7.)  We're seeing
> more and more applications use an HTML renderer for core
> parts of their interfaces, such as Gwibber, and Empathy
> with the Adium theme.
>
> I also wonder if non-editable GtkTextView widgets should
> be doing something here.

It's definitely something that is becoming more common, and I think you 
either want it or not versus turning it on in one application and 
disabling it in another.

> If we had a desktop-wide setting (possibly propagated by
> an xsetting), then GTK+/Gecko/WebKit/etc could just pick
> it up and do the right thing, without any extra work from
> application developers.

The XSetting notion is interesting.  Which component would we file and 
RFE for to get this?  gnome-settings-daemon?

Will