Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (128 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mardi 06 mai 2008, à 12:00 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I've been working on bug 372423 [1] for a few hours now. I originally
> thought it wouldn't be too difficult -- yeah, don't laugh, I'm naive ;-)
>
> Basically, the bug is about a patch that we have in metacity to open the
> main menu with the logo keys. The problem is that this does not work
> well for all keyboard drivers, as the keycode returned when a logo key
> is pressed can change. And it's hardcoded in the patch. A possibility is
> to use the xkb definition to know what is the keycode for LWIN/RWIN.
> Here's my latest comment, proposing something else:
>
> ==
> So, I played a bit with all this. It's kind of hard to directly use
> LWIN/RWIN, and it would make a huge patch for a feature that will never
> get accepted upstream.
>
> Also, note that we disabled this behavior by default in openSUSE, and
> it's only active in SLED.
>
> An alternative approach is to consider that the user who wants to use
> the window keys to open the main menu won't play with XKB settings. So
> we can consider that Super_L and Super_R are the window keys. Then, it's
> just a matter of creating a new gconf key:
> /apps/metacity/global_keybindings/panel_main_menu_list. This key is a
> list of strings, and we can put Super_L and Super_R there to get the
> same results.
>
> In terms of openSUSE, it means we just drop the patch and do nothing. In
> terms of SLED, it means adding a new key in gconf2-branding-openSUSE.
> I'll ask on the mailing list to get feedback on the idea.
> ==
>
> I think it's really much cleaner, simpler, more maintainable,
> "lots-of-other-words"-er to go this way. Opinions on this?

FWIW, I implemented this.

Vincent

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