Shift-F10 keybinding not in "Keyboard Shortcuts" preferences editor

[MikeCalder]

In Intrepid on AMD64 as delivered, the Shift-F10 key combination is bound under Gnome desktop to bring up a popup menu.
All shortcut key bindings should be in the Keyboard Shortcuts editor under System preferences, so they can be changed or disabled.
This key binding does not appear in the list so cannot be changed.
This means that this key binding cannot be used in applications which expect to use it.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. However, Shift+F10 is configured to activate the right-click context menu on a per-application basis in Gnome HIG compliant applications. This doesn't stop non HIG-compliant applications from using the Shift+F10 combination for other purposes, as this combination is not actually configured as a global keybinding.

For example, if you press Shift+F10 with the mouse pointer on the desktop, the Nautilus context menu will appear. If you press Shift+F10 with the mouse cursor in gnome-terminal, then the gnome-terminal context menu will appear. If you press Shift+F10 in a non Gnome HIG-compliant application, then it will respond however that application is configured to respond when pressing this shortcut.

I'm going to close this bug report, as what you've described isn't a bug. Please feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[MikeCalder (michaelcalder)]

Chris,

Thankyou for the clarification, apologies for my misunderstanding.

Are you saying that this combination cannot be switched off inside Gnome HIG
applications? If any program is run from the Gnome Terminal it will cannot
receive this combination? If so, that appears very unsatisfactory, and bad
design

On Sunday 14 December 2008 20:34:07 Chris Coulson wrote:
> Thank you for your bug report. However, Shift+F10 is configured to
> activate the right-click context menu on a per-application basis in
> Gnome HIG compliant applications. This doesn't stop non HIG-compliant
> applications from using the Shift+F10 combination for other purposes, as
> this combination is not actually configured as a global keybinding.
>
> For example, if you press Shift+F10 with the mouse pointer on the
> desktop, the Nautilus context menu will appear. If you press Shift+F10
> with the mouse cursor in gnome-terminal, then the gnome-terminal context
> menu will appear. If you press Shift+F10 in a non Gnome HIG-compliant
> application, then it will respond however that application is configured
> to respond when pressing this shortcut.
>
> I'm going to close this bug report, as what you've described isn't a
> bug. Please feel free to report any other bugs you find.
>
> ** Changed in: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid

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Clear skies!
Mike Calder.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Any application can respond to however it likes to Shift+F10 - just like CTRL+C and other similar shortcuts. The application that has focus will respond to however it is programmed to use that shortcut - it is not a global keybinding. If you launch an application from gnome-terminal, give the application focus and then press Shift+F10, then the application can do whatever it wants with that shortcut, and is not limited by ant other application.