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

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

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...

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Jan