From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alex Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add GTK UI to enable basic accessibility (v2)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:39:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4BB1AD.6090308@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F4B860C.30404@codemonkey.ws>
Hi,
>> That all keyboard inputs are grabbed when the mouse is in the window and
>> you don't need to press ctrl-alt-g explicitly. And the reverse should
>> happen when the mouse reaches the window border. Just like under SDL,
>> give it a try.
>
> Right, this was intentional. I think it's weird that a window would
> steal input when the mouse moves over it breaking desktop accelerators
> like alt tab. If you've ever alt-tab cycled through windows when QEMU
> is running, if you're unlucky enough to have the mouse where a QEMU
> window may be, the QEMU instance will steal input and prevent alt-tab
> from working anymore.
Same is true the other way around. Working in the guest, then have the
host desktop grab accelerators can be annoying too. You might have
wanted switch *guest* windows with alt tab ;)
It is a tricky usability issue.
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-27 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-26 23:46 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add GTK UI to enable basic accessibility (v2) Anthony Liguori
2012-02-26 23:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] console: allow VCs to be overridden by UI Anthony Liguori
2012-02-26 23:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/8] chr: check to see if front end has registered a read function Anthony Liguori
2012-02-26 23:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/8] ui: add basic GTK gui (v2) Anthony Liguori
2012-02-26 23:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/8] gtk: add virtual console support (v2) Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 10:45 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-02-26 23:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] gtk: add support for input grabbing Anthony Liguori
2012-02-26 23:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/8] gtk: add support for screen scaling and full screen (v2) Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 20:10 ` Stefan Weil
2012-02-27 22:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-28 14:18 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-02-26 23:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] gtk: add translation support Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 8:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-02-27 13:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-28 15:10 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-02-27 22:09 ` Stefan Weil
2012-02-26 23:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 8/8] gtk: make default UI Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 7:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add GTK UI to enable basic accessibility (v2) malc
2012-02-27 8:21 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-27 13:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 13:26 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-27 13:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 13:42 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-27 13:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 13:54 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-02-27 16:39 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2012-02-27 16:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 16:54 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-02-27 14:24 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-02-27 14:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-02-27 15:03 ` Kevin Wolf
2012-03-11 17:29 ` Stefan Weil
2012-03-11 18:24 ` François Revol
2012-03-11 18:47 ` Stefan Weil
2012-03-12 2:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-12 16:39 ` François Revol
2012-03-12 17:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-12 2:30 ` Anthony Liguori
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