From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54884) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S23gX-0008NE-Io for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:44:34 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S23gR-0004g1-Mk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:44:25 -0500 Received: from mail-pw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.160.45]:33985) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S23gR-0004fw-Gy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:44:19 -0500 Received: by pbbro12 with SMTP id ro12so6656157pbb.4 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:44:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F4BB2DF.6090605@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:44:15 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1330299995-8688-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4F4B3CF0.5040703@web.de> <4F4B80D8.6010000@codemonkey.ws> <4F4B8484.7060109@siemens.com> <4F4B860C.30404@codemonkey.ws> <4F4BB1AD.6090308@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4F4BB1AD.6090308@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/8] Add GTK UI to enable basic accessibility (v2) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Kevin Wolf , Stefano Stabellini , Jan Kiszka , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alex Graf , Stefan Weil , Paolo Bonzini On 02/27/2012 10:39 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > 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. Clearly, the GUI needs to read the user's mind to figure out what they meant to do :-) I think a menu option at least let's the user choose the behavior. I think that's the best we're going to be able to do. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > cheers, > Gerd