Bug 69140 - gnome-terminal shouldn't grab F1 for help
Summary: gnome-terminal shouldn't grab F1 for help
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: gnome-terminal
Version: 1.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Havoc Pennington
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Blocks: 67218
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-18 08:08 UTC by Jens Petersen
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-07-21 03:42:24 UTC
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Description Jens Petersen 2002-07-18 08:08:38 UTC
Description of Problem:
gnome-terminal now binds F1 to help starting yelp.
But with this binding F1 can't be entered into a
terminal session.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-terminal-2.0.0.90-1

How Reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start gnome-terminal.
2. Press F1.

Actual Results:
yelp pops up.

Expected Results:
F1 should go to the application.

Additional Information:
I realise the Help binding can be changed with gconf,
but I think the default should be something better like say "<control>F1"(?),
since using F1 inside a terminal is rather common. Eg tty emacs, etc, etc.

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-07-21 23:41:04 UTC
F1 is the standard binding for Help though - that's what you'd use it for in
Emacs as well. ;-)

I dunno, it's easy enough to change if you use this binding in a terminal app.
It seems pretty valuable to have Help on the standard keybinding instead of
something weird (though I already used something weird for e.g. copy/paste).


Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2002-07-24 12:02:50 UTC
How about using Ctrl-Shift-F1 for help too, like for the cut'n'paste bindings
too.  Terminal are rather special apps, in that their own keybindings should be
as unobtrusive as possible.  I wonder too how many gnome-terminal users
actually need to look at the help documentation.


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