Bug 25202

Summary: XSettingsRegistry: add setting to toggle caret navigation in non-editable text widgets
Product: Specifications Reporter: Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Allison Lortie (desrt) <desrt>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium CC: faure, walker.willie
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Joanmarie Diggs 2009-11-20 10:09:39 UTC 
This thread already explains what is needed more elegantly than I would. :-)
http://www.mail-archive.com/desktop-devel-list@gnome.org/msg17531.html

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 14:48 -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
> Thanks Shaun!
> 
> > Epiphany and Evolution also both respond to F7 to enable
> > caret navigation.  (And, by the way, though Yelp stores
> > this in GConf, it also responds to F7.)  We're seeing
> > more and more applications use an HTML renderer for core
> > parts of their interfaces, such as Gwibber, and Empathy
> > with the Adium theme.
> > 
> > I also wonder if non-editable GtkTextView widgets should
> > be doing something here.
> 
> It's definitely something that is becoming more common, and I think you 
> either want it or not versus turning it on in one application and 
> disabling it in another.
> 
> > If we had a desktop-wide setting (possibly propagated by
> > an xsetting), then GTK+/Gecko/WebKit/etc could just pick
> > it up and do the right thing, without any extra work from
> > application developers.
> 
> The XSetting notion is interesting.  Which component would we file and 
> RFE for to get this?  gnome-settings-daemon?

Well, a few places.  We'd probably want to add something here:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/XSettingsRegistry

Then, I suppose there should be a GtkSettings property:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkSettings.html

And then, yes, gnome-settings-daemon would be responsible for
watching GConf (or whatever) and settings the XSetting.

--
Shaun
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2015-09-18 09:41:53 UTC 
Sorry for the noise, reassigning to new (since 2 years) maintainers (Ryan & David).
Comment 2 David Faure 2016-08-20 08:46:09 UTC 
This seems to be in the wrong component.

The desktop entry spec is unrelated to
Comment 3 David Faure 2016-08-20 08:46:41 UTC 
Oops, last comment wasn't supposed to go in; I fixed the component & title of the bug.
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