From kde-core-devel  Fri Jun 29 18:45:56 2001
From: Ellis Whitehead <ellis () innocent ! com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 18:45:56 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Shortcut for Show Desktop
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=99400733422112

Greetings Rich,

> alt-PrtScreen for desktop and window snapshots respectively. Given that
> this use is so close to the legend on the key (and the fact I've never seen
> anything use this key) I think an unmodified accelerator is ok.
I don't see it as a practical problem either, but rather as a consistency 
issue.  Make "Window Screenshot" = Alt+Print would be:
	- consistent with all other global shortcuts requiring modifiers,
	- consistent with ms windows,
	- consistent with the 4-modifier scheme,
	- consistent with the Alt+Tab/Ctrl+Tab reflex.
These are all minor issues, but nonetheless seem to me to speak in favor of 
the minute required to edit the necessary files.  So to pose the same 
bothersome question again: what do you think?  May I?

> The thing I find really odd is that if I try to bind the Print key to
> something currently, it correctly reports that the key is in use by the
> screenshot global binding, but the global accelerator itself is never
> fired. I don't understand why the key works in one context, but not the
> other.
X has the Print symbol bound to two physical keys, the first of which is 
always chosen for XGrabKey when translating a symbol to a physical key index. 
 Unfortunately, that physical key doesn't exist on our keyboards, and when we 
press the Print key we do have, the active window will see it, but 
KGlobalAccel doesn't see it because it wasn't grabbed.
I'm debating with my inner demons about whether to hack a work-around into 
kxkb or kaccel... ;)

Take care,
Ellis