Re: Accessibility of Gnome panel / How to end session via keyboard

["John Zitterkopf" <zitt zittware com>]

Padraig / ALL,

I attempted to apply this patch after some initial stumbling around with the
installation of sources and such (see my other thread); but even after I got
gnome-panel to compile on my system without errors; I can't seem to get the
patch to give the correct results.

1) I manually edited the menu.c file and
2) added the underscore (_) in front of the Log Out string ;
3) recompiled the source...
4) copied the gnome-panel binary to my usr/bin directory and
5) startx to run gnome.

Everything loaded fine... but the main menu on gnome didn't accept the hot
key of an L..
I tried to use the mouse to open the menu... then hit L, SHIFT-L, ALT-L,
CTRL-L and all other SHIFT/ALT/CTRL combos... none worked.

So, I exited gnome using the mouse and logout and recompiled... then did a
6) make install

and re-ran gnome.

Now the main panel disappeared all together. However, I could still bring up
the panel using <ALT-F1>; but it still didn't accept the L hot key like I
expected.

So, I exited and reinstalled the gnome-panel from Mandrake's RPM on CD.
Verified gnome-panel was back in proper working order.

I went back into menu.c and edited that same line... this time trying
_("Zitt _Log Out"));

and recompiled, copied, and re-ran gnome...

The logout menu item did not change it's text... and the L hot key still did
not work.

I'm fairly sure missing something obvious.
I assume PANEL_STOCK_LOGOUT is a template which is a image that has to be
manually modified to show any string changes?
If so; why didn't the hot key work?

I'm running gnome-panel 2.2.0 not the latest (2.3.??)... is this hotkey
feature part of a later version of gnome?

Any ideas?
John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: Accessibility of Gnome panel / How to end session via keyboard


> Patch to achieve this hack attached.
>
> Padraig
>
> >
> >
> > > If we look at Microshaft's implementation... you can do the following:
> > > <CTRL><ESC> (brings up start menu)
> > > S <selects Shutdown>
> > > U <selects Shutdown> or R <selects Reboot>
> > > <ENTER> (confirms selection)
> > >
> > > Ideally, I'd like to see Gnome do simular things:
> > > <ALT><F1> (brings up foot menu>
> > > L <selects Log Off>
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > IF I wanted to hack in this capability; where in the source code would
I
> look?
> > Look in gnome-panel/menu.c.  I think just inserting underscores in
> > front of the characters you want to make shortcuts, in the menu item
labels,
> > may do the trick.  I am checking now (but have to rebuild things first).
> >
> > - Bill
> > > John



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> Index: menu.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/gnome/gnome-panel/gnome-panel/menu.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.642.2.8
> diff -u -p -r1.642.2.8 menu.c
> --- menu.c 10 Mar 2003 02:01:41 -0000 1.642.2.8
> +++ menu.c 27 Jun 2003 07:44:52 -0000
> @@ -3567,7 +3567,7 @@ create_desktop_menu (GtkWidget *menu, gb
>
>   menuitem = gtk_image_menu_item_new ();
>   setup_stock_menu_item (
> - menuitem, panel_menu_icon_get_size (), PANEL_STOCK_LOGOUT, _("Log
Out"));
> + menuitem, panel_menu_icon_get_size (), PANEL_STOCK_LOGOUT, _("_Log
Out"));
>   gtk_menu_shell_append (GTK_MENU_SHELL (menu), menuitem);
>   g_signal_connect (menuitem, "activate",
>     G_CALLBACK (panel_action_logout), 0);
>