On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:16:37 +0000 Phillip White <philth...@outlook.com> wrote:
> Hey Dev's > > > I have seen a lot of people hating waylands no global key binding > feature. > > https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert/issues/309 > > https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/06/global-shortcut-handling-in-a-plasma-wayland-session/ > > Do you have any plans to support this? I think this is a question a > lot of people are wanting an answer to. Hi, yes. There is a proposal at https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-August/034776.html but so far there have been no other interested developers to review and push it forward. I think that proposal would be a good starting point for discussion. The fundamental idea is that applications cannot bind directly to a key combination. Instead, they bind to abstract action names, and the compositor defines what key (or mouse or touchpad or touchscreen or GPIO input device or gamepad or laptop lid or battery status or ...) combinations will trigger it. This is much more flexible than old style key hijacking, and also securable against input sniffing which is essential for any design. Obviously it requires effort from compositors to offer a friendly UI for configuring the actual keys for the actions. It also calls for an agreed list of standard action names and possibly default key binding suggestions. Thanks, pq
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