Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] gtk: add support for input grabbing (v2)

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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On 2012-09-05 22:40, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> writes:
> 
>> On 2012-09-05 21:18, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> There is a small deviation from SDL's behavior here.  Instead of Ctrl+Alt
>>> triggering grab, we now use Ctrl-Alt-g to trigger grab.
>>>
>>> GTK will not accept Ctrl+Alt as an accelerator since it just consists of
>>> modifiers.  Having grab as a proper accelerator is important as it allows a user
>>> to override the accelerator for accessibility purposes.
>>>
>>> We also are not automatically grabbing on left-click.  Besides the inability to
>>> tie mouse clicks to an accelerator, I think this behavior is hard to discover
>>> and since it only happens depending on the guest state, it can lead to confusing
>>> behavior.
>>>
>>> This can be changed in the future if there's a strong resistence to dropping
>>> left-click-to-grab, but I think we're better off dropping it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>> v1 -> v2
>>>  - add a menu option for grab on hover (Jan)
>>
>> Thanks. Are options like this persistent across VM starts?
> 
> No.  I don't want to include that in this series as it opens up a whole
> debate about GConf vs. configuration files...

Well, but it must be solved. In a later series, that's fine.

Jan



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