GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 401576
Expose the Alt+F6 shortcut in the capplet
Last modified: 2007-02-08 18:14:46 UTC
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Metacity nowadays has a ALT+F6 shortcut which is used to cycle not through windows but through applications. It does not show up in the capplet which lets the user change keyboard shortcuts. Well, it should.
Agreed, although it appears to cycle through just the windows of the current application here. Is there someone who could verify what the new behaviour is supposed to do?
Yeah, my bad. cf. <http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/metacity/trunk/ChangeLog?rev=2666&r1=2660&r2=2666>
It lets the user cycle through all windows with the same X group as the current window.
Created attachment 81904 [details] [review] Add the keybinding Here's the patch. Hopefully this does not get covered by the UI Freeze. It's a nice useful thing that it'd be nice to have in 2.18.
Is this really a shortcut that "ordinary users" (whatever that means) have a need for? I can obviously only answer the question for myself, and your personal answer is probably different from mine, but before extending the list of shortcuts it would be nice to have some sort of consensus of which are the important shortcuts and which aren't. FWIW, there are requests for adding other shortcuts, too, and if we added everything anyone asked for, we'd have a pretty mess.
Well, while you certainly have a point, the shortcut -is- there, globally active, independently of whether the Keyboayd Shortcuts capplet exposes it or not. Exposing it in the capplet gives users a way to learn that it is there (hopefully it is documented in some user-visible doc, but "ordinary users" do not read docs) and disabling it.
Ok, so we say, we'll add shortcuts which have a default binding, but others only with believable evidence they are needed? Fine with me. We should just have *some* means of knowing where to draw the line.
Agreed. If a shortcut is there by default, and the user wishes to use the key combination for some other shortcut, it's going to cause problems if they cannot modify it through the capplet. It seems there are already a huge number of shortcuts being displayed in the capplet anyway, so perhaps we should deal with deal with this problem separately.
Fixed on HEAD. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r7263 | mariano | 2007-02-08 14:57:07 -0300 (Thu, 08 Feb 2007) | 6 lines 2007-02-08 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <mariano@gnome.org> * gnome-keybinding-properties.c (metacity_key_list): added gconf:/apps/metacity/global_keybindings/cycle_group
A desktop wide register of globally active shortcuts (on l.g.o, maybe) would not hurt, at the very least, so that people writing documentation do not have to read through 50 ChangeLogs.