improvements to the shortcut
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Diodon |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Hey.
One of the more important things (in the sense of: it's "always" used) of diodon is to access the "context menu",... i.e. the list of the last n entries.
It would be nice if that could be improved the following ways:
- allow e.g. the Menu and Super_L or Super_R keys to be used as shortcuts
many people don't use these keys in other ways and since they're so close at the keyboard they could be very handy for a functionality that is used so often as Diodon's list.
Admittedly, I'm not sure whether this would work in GNOME,... when they introduced GNOME3 they somehow strangely hacked e.g. Super_L to be a very special key which cannot be used for shortcuts (at least not for those set in the control centre), not sure whether this is still the case.
But successor DEs, like Cinnamon have solved this issue, so there it would work.
- it would be nice if one wouldn't have to enter they string-code for the desired shortcut, but rather set it as this is done in the control centres of e.g. GNOME or Cinnamon. Cick on the field, and then it takes the next combination as shortcut, while backspace disables/exits.
- and it could be nice if that was directly integrated into the control centre applet for setting shortcuts.... not sure though, how easy this can be made portable between GNOME/Cinnamon/etc.
Cheers,
Chris.
| Oliver Sauder (sao) wrote | #1 |
Thanks for those ideas.
There are actually a few bug reports which are exactly about what you are suggesting.
Bug #1232894
Bug #871376
Bug #1101185
Bug #1235830
I therefore mark this issue as a duplicate.
There is a work around though which might help you for now. It takes into consideration that when Diodon is already started and you run it again it will show you the current clipboard history.
I do not know about Cinnamon but I guess it is available there as well - but in GNOME/Unity there is ability to add custom shortcuts. So what you can do is to assign the shortcut of your choice and then use /usr/bin/diodon.