Comment 2 for bug 307906

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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