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Bug 63700 - Display names of Keys
Display names of Keys
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: Other
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
: 67606 67766 84186 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-11-03 22:53 UTC by Steven Knight
Modified: 2011-02-04 16:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Steven Knight 2001-11-03 22:53:45 UTC 
In galeon the keys listed to move between tabs are listed as 
Ctl+Prior ( for previous tab ) and Ctl+Next ( for next tab ).  Now, perhaps
you're wondering what this has to do with you?

An issue was brought up on galeon mailing list (
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/5085/0/6965755/ ) about what
keys Prior and Next mapped to.  Someone answered that Prior and Next map to
PageUp and PageDown.  

According to http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/5085/0/6966171/
this mapping is done in gtk+.  Thus, my bug report : would it be possible
to change this so instead of seeing Prior and Next, one would see PageUp
and PageDown?

Thanks,
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2001-11-19 17:41:36 UTC 
This is really an effect of what XKeysymToString(), but 
we could special case this one.

GdkPrior/GdkPageUp are actually alternate names for the
same keys, Xlib returns the first, but PageUp is the
name on virtually all keyboards, so would be the better
name.

Adding the hack in x11/gdkkeys-x11.c should be easy, but it
also needs to be fixed in the win32 and linux-fb
code; also note that KP_Prior/KP_Next should get the
same treatement.
Comment 2 Yanko Kaneti 2001-12-27 23:15:02 UTC 
*** Bug 67606 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Yanko Kaneti 2001-12-27 23:16:27 UTC 
*** Bug 67606 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Yanko Kaneti 2001-12-31 17:11:24 UTC 
*** Bug 67766 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Owen Taylor 2002-02-27 00:25:05 UTC 
Tue Feb 26 19:16:28 2002  Owen Taylor  <otaylor@redhat.com>

        * gdk/win32/gdkkeys-win32.c (gdk_keyval_name): 
        * gdk/x11/gdkkeys-x11.c (gdk_keyval_name): 
        Make sure Page_Up, Page_Down get those names, not Prior,
        Next.

I'm afraid they display as "Page_Up" / "Page_Down" not something
prettier, but should be clear anyways.
Comment 6 Yanko Kaneti 2002-06-05 08:28:47 UTC 
*** Bug 84186 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***