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Bug 538693 - Keybindings should be keymap-independent
Keybindings should be keymap-independent
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 436926
Product: orca
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.22.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Orca Maintainers
Orca Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-06-17 01:49 UTC by Samuel Thibault
Modified: 2008-06-17 12:42 UTC
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Description Samuel Thibault 2008-06-17 01:49:47 UTC 
For instance, the default laptop keybinding for character review
is orca+[M], orca+[,] and orca+[.] . On an azerty keyboard for
instance, [M], [,] ans [.] are not located like on a qwerty keyboard,
and the shortcuts become non-intuitive.

It looks to me like the keyboard shortcut should be based on keycodes,
not keysyms, and the keycode<->keysym should be only used when
presenting the shortcut table to the user and letting him modify
it. That would permit to be completely keymap-independent.


Other information:
Comment 1 Willie Walker 2008-06-17 12:42:02 UTC 
Marking as a duplicate of bug #436926.  As a side note: unfortnately, keycodes cannot be hardcoded into Orca since keycodes can differ between operating system distributions.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 436926 ***