[Clug-tech] Gnome keyboard shortcuts

[Gustin Johnson]

On 10-05-28 12:12 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On May 27, 2010, Mark Carlson wrote:
>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> wrote:
>>> On 10-05-27 02:29 PM, Mark Carlson wrote:
>>>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Gustin Johnson <gustin at echostar.ca> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>> Man do I ever hate Gnome sometimes (by sometimes I mean most of the
>>>>> time).
> 
> "doctor, it hurts when i do this ...." ;)
> 
Right now it is the only functioning GUI on my system.  Besides, I like
to check in with the other projects once in a while.  I can't always
just assume that KDE will be better :)

>>> It seems that that to do this I need to make changes to the compiz
>>> settings and not the gnome keyboard shortcuts.  Confusing and weird.
>>
>> Wow, that is weird.  
> 
> technically, it's not weird at all. it's poor integration, sure, but 
> completely expected. 
> 
> the window manager manages the windows, and as such owns (and defines) all the 
> functions for doing so. since keyboard shortcuts need something to trigger, 
> and only the window manager knows which actions are available, the window 
> manager ends up owning the keyboard shortcuts. Compiz is not part of a larger 
> desktop framework, so these settings end up in Compiz and not well integrated.
> 
> such integration is one of the two major reason why we stuck with KWin even 
> though that meant having to add compositing to it ourselves.
> 
> cobbling together random projects to try and create a desktop (or other device 
> form factor) shell and hoping for a quality user experience is a form of self-
> delusion.

That actually makes sense.  It sucks for Gnome users trying to figure
out where all the settings are.

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