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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Pressing unconfigured key
From:       Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date:       2009-05-27 7:22:05
Message-ID: 20090527072205.GB4277 () trinity ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org
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On 27.05.09 08:03:03, Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 May 2009 23:17:26 John Tapsell wrote:
> 
> >   I was discussing with mjansen about what should happen if you
> > press a key that hasn't been configured.
> 
> Ignore it. User left it not configured.
> 
> >   I would like a dialog box to popup and say "Unrecognised key
> > pressed" and let you chose what to map it to.  The idea being that
> > you can easily setup multimedia keys.
> 
> How many times do you intend to configure those keys? I guess once. 
> But the popup dialog will appear _every_ time.
> 
> The reason itself is questionable, such keys have to mapped within X. 
> 
> >   Would it just be annoying?
> 
> A lot. And we need an option to disable it, and probably by default, 
> so it does not make any sense. 

Assuming we're talking only about things like the Multimedia Keys on
keyboards, then whats the problem of applications like amarok just
defining a default global shortcut to Xf86Play and kmix for "Mute".
Those are defined symbolic keys in X11 and as far as I recall most if
not all X11 keyboard layouts for multimedia-keyboards set those
apropriately. Hence all the user has to do is select the right keyboard
layout. So the only problem could be that there's no keyboard layout for
his specific keyboard and no other that works instead. But in that case
it seems most users either fall back to defining their own xkb-mapping
or start fiddling with xmodmap. Both of which should work if the user
translates the keycodes to the well-known X11 symbolic keys like
Xf86Play.

If we're also talking about other things, hell no. I don't want an
application popup a dialog each time I forget I'm not in
$MY_MOST_USED_APP and hit a shortcut that doesn't work in this
particular app. That would be extremely annyoing.

Andreas

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