Re: Global shortkeys and keyboard focus

2014-07-09 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 22:26:07 + "Dodier-Lazaro, Steve" wrote: > A couple of notes on the previous emails, > > Fabrice, so long as your app ensures that no third-party code can > programmatically grab a shortcut without user agreement, it would make sense > to let it have a privilege. > > Qu

RE: Global shortkeys and keyboard focus

2014-07-08 Thread Dodier-Lazaro, Steve
A couple of notes on the previous emails, Fabrice, so long as your app ensures that no third-party code can programmatically grab a shortcut without user agreement, it would make sense to let it have a privilege. Quite obviously a compo should have the last word and be able to refuse a request

Re: Global shortkeys and keyboard focus

2014-07-04 Thread Fabrice Rey
The shortkeys I'm referring to are typically ... so z, f1, etc. Currently, in the application each applet registers a shortkey with a description, its icon, and a callback. So all shortkeys are configurable from a single place in the UI. The user can double-click on a shortkey to enter a new one, s

Re: Global shortkeys and keyboard focus

2014-07-04 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Friday 04 July 2014 14:04:03 Dodier-Lazaro, Steve wrote: > The problem is: what are the allowed global shortcuts leaking about users? > > If it's any key that can be listened to, then we've just gotten ourselves an > API for implementing keyloggers. Just because the API and standard allow any

Re: Global shortkeys and keyboard focus

2014-07-04 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
I think the user should be in control here. I have a custom setup just because it's something I did 10 years ago and it's engrained into my muscle memory. Ctrl+Shift+X is "pause/play music" Ctrl+Shift+C is "play music" (which also means rewinding the current track to the beginning) Ctrl+Shift+D is

Re: Global shortkeys and keyboard focus

2014-07-04 Thread Michael Schellenberger Costa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 04/07/2014 16:04, schrieb Dodier-Lazaro, Steve: > Hi Michael, > >> Is there any reason global shortcuts should lie with an >> application? Wouldn't it make more sense to provide an interface >> on the compositor side, where clients can register a g

RE: Global shortkeys and keyboard focus

2014-07-04 Thread Dodier-Lazaro, Steve
Hi Michael, > Is there any reason global shortcuts should lie with an application? >Wouldn't it make more sense to provide an interface on the compositor > side, where clients can register a global shortcut and the compositor > sends an event back in case of the shortcut being pressed. > > In that

Re: Global shortkeys and keyboard focus

2014-07-04 Thread Michael Schellenberger Costa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.07.2014 12:53, Dodier-Lazaro, Steve wrote: > Hi Fabrice, > >> Hi all, This topic came up in my previous one about window >> placement, and I'd like to go further. So currently there is no >> such thing as Global shortkeys and keyboard focus, how

Re: Global shortkeys and keyboard focus

2014-07-04 Thread Martin Peres
Le 04/07/2014 09:58, Pekka Paalanen a écrit : On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 22:38:34 +0200 Fabrice Rey wrote: Hi all, This topic came up in my previous one about window placement, and I'd like to go further. So currently there is no such thing as Global shortkeys and keyboard focus, Have you tried sear

RE: Global shortkeys and keyboard focus

2014-07-04 Thread Dodier-Lazaro, Steve
Hi Fabrice, > Hi all, > This topic came up in my previous one about window placement, and I'd like to > go further. > So currently there is no such thing as Global shortkeys and keyboard focus, > however let me present a typical real use-case: > [...] > > Now, I've read some vague things about pri

Re: Global shortkeys and keyboard focus

2014-07-04 Thread Pekka Paalanen
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014 22:38:34 +0200 Fabrice Rey wrote: > Hi all, > This topic came up in my previous one about window placement, and I'd like > to go further. > So currently there is no such thing as Global shortkeys and keyboard focus, Have you tried searching for the wayland-devel mailing list a