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[gabriel pettier <gabriel.pettier@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le ven. 30 mars 2012 09:57:47 CEST, Thorsten Wilms a écrit :
> On 03/30/2012 01:08 AM, Gustav Sony wrote:
> > How many apps are affected? I only heard about emacs, which is
> > definitely a power-user tool!
> > Wouldn't it be possible to make some exceptions for applications which
> > rely on ALT as modifier? If one of these apps is on top ... HUD will be
> > blocked or deactivated and has its normal function?
>
> Emacs, Inkscape, Blender. Probably many more in the set of
> applications with a huge amount of commands.
>
>
> Keyboard shortcuts (and ideally any input "gesture") should be handled
> by a central service. Where applications register there commands and
> the service maps identical and very similar commands to single gestures.
>
> Considering the technical and even more the political obstacles to
> such a solution, having an online database of shortcuts would be a
> move in the right direction. It should be a tool to harmonize existing
> shortcuts and to better plan the use of new ones.

I don't get the issue, the HUD is only displayed if you do a brief 
taping on alt, i don't know of any application that use such a brief 
tap on alt, softwares always use this key in combination with another 
key, any press longer than half a second if ignored, any taping in 
combination with another key too, so i don't see any conflict with any 
app there. For example, i can do alt-l (lower word) and alt-u (upper 
word) in a terminal without any issue.