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Bug 698743 - Add D-Bus API for some shortcuts
Add D-Bus API for some shortcuts
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks: 691636
 
 
Reported: 2013-04-24 14:28 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2013-09-02 09:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
ShellDBus: add ShowApplications and StartSearch methods (2.56 KB, patch)
2013-04-24 17:42 UTC, Giovanni Campagna 		committed Details | Review

Description Bastien Nocera 2013-04-24 14:28:32 UTC 
In bug 689699 I requested a D-Bus API to allow going to the overview and focusing the search entry.

This one is about supporting some of the special keys on Mac keyboards, namely the Mission Control and Expose keys (bug 691636).

I'd like a D-Bus API to toggle the "show applications" view in the overview (pressing it outside the overview would go to the overview and show the applications list), and another one to toggle the activities view (that would be in addition to the existing keys like Alt+F1, and Super).
Comment 1 Giovanni Campagna 2013-04-24 17:19:06 UTC 
You already have an API to go to the overview, just set the OverviewActive property on org.gnome.Shell.

I'll prepare a patch for the rest.
Comment 2 Giovanni Campagna 2013-04-24 17:42:40 UTC 
Created attachment 242350 [details] [review]
ShellDBus: add ShowApplications and StartSearch methods

Add methods to control the visibility of the applications view
and to focus the search entry.
These will be used by gnome-settings-daemon for special keys
in certain keyboards.
Comment 3 drago01 2013-04-24 20:24:30 UTC 
Review of attachment 242350 [details] [review]:

LG.
Comment 4 Giovanni Campagna 2013-04-24 20:33:41 UTC 
This is on top of bug 654086, care to review that?
Thanks!
Comment 5 Giovanni Campagna 2013-09-02 09:04:15 UTC 
In the end I dropped StartSearch because we already have
FocusSearch and I don't think starting with a specific string is useful.