From kde-core-devel  Wed Mar 29 17:44:05 2006
From: Olivier Goffart <ogoffart () kde ! org>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:44:05 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Farewell KAccel, you have served us well
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Le Lundi 27 Mars 2006 16:05, Hamish Rodda a =E9crit=A0:
> Hi,
Hi,

> As an added bonus, I noticed that from an api design perspective, it made
> more sense to allow any KAction to be associated with a global accelerato=
r,
> rather than to special case it as was the case in the past.  So, now you
> can assign (programatically at least, gui to follow) a global accelerator
> to any KAction.  imho it is a gain, but not as large as it might first se=
em
> (many actions need focus to do something meaningful for the user).  I also
> abstracted most of the bookkeeping out of KGlobalAccelPrivate and into
> KGlobalAccel itself, so that the (now renamed) KGlobalAccelImpl class can
> concentrate on doing platform-specific tasks only.  KGlobalAccel is now a
> singleton.


I'm not sure if it is fine. =20
=46or most actions, global shortcut make no sens:
  - some actions need, like you mentioned, something focussed or selected
  - if not, which action to trigger if several windows of the same applicat=
ion=20
are open ?
  - and what if several instance of the same applications are open.

Actions that could have a global shortcut are very specific. (thoses plugge=
d=20
into the systemtray menu)


Also, is there a use case of having both a local and a global shortcut ?=20


An idea is to have two flags:
  1- Does it make sens to have a global shortcut ?   (set by the programmer)
  2- Is the shortcut global  (set in the config)




Another almost unrelated thing:
I'd like to be able to execute one action with dcop^W dbus=20
In order the make the mouse gesture and voice trigger configurable in the=20
application configure shortcut dialog. The khotkey deamon must know which=20
action collection is "active" (if the window has actually the focus).  And=
=20
must be able to execute the action.


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