Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
This is a wish item. Keytouch is a program that automatically sets up
the keys of those non-standard keyboards, you know the ones with those
multimedia keys, whatever. gnome-keybindings-properties should have a
connection with keytouch, at least informing the user of its existence.
gnome-keybindings-properties is unable to take advantage of these extra
keys at all, where as keytouch is quite the opposite, it takes advantage
of these keys beautifully. Keytouch has reasonable defaults, and has
the flexibility to accommodate anything. But, the point of this bug
report is not to sell keytouch. Keytouch is great.
The problem was how damn hard it was to find out about keytouch! I
googled, I asked in #ubuntu, I googled again, I gave up. Then, one day
I'm trying random factoids on ubottu, I thought, lets try !shortcuts
factoid, see if it even exists. Voila! There it is. A link to a
description of keytouch
gnome-keybindings-properties should have some connection to keytouch.
One can dream up some automated install system, and some clean way of
switching between interfaces with ease, but that seems like a whole lota
of work where there is a much simpler solution.
Have keytouch prominently described in the help section.
<rant id="Crap shortcut help">Everything in the help section is pretty
useless anyway. Its so bad, it looks like a poorly paid intern wrote
it. The first third is a description of what a keyboard shortcut is.
Why do I need a description of what a shortcut is? What kind of person
is going to click the System menu, then the preferences menu, then the
keyboard shortcuts menu, and NOT know what keyboard shortcut is? Are
there computer grannies clicking around on all the menus without a clue,
finding themselves with a strange window with lots of gibberish entitled
"Keyboard Shortcuts", and then saying to themselves, "I'm not going to
do what any normal unsavvy computer user would do, close this
meaningless window, and write emails to my friends, I'm gona click the
HELP button." Well, that person is fucked, because the 2 liner
explanation of what keyboard shortcut is simple yet obtuse enough that
probably only people who already know what a keyboard shortcut is will
understand it. Well, fuck those granny hackers anyway, because thats
what tutorials and general walkthroughs are for.
Next, is a restating of the directions of how to use the keyboard
shortcuts applet, which are ALREADY PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED IN THE MAIN
WINDOW. (I'm sorry, did I loose you with the capitol letters? Please
read the contents of this parenthesized section to understand more
clearly. The directions are "already prominently displayed in the main
window.")
The last section describes how the shortcuts are organized, incase you couldn't
figure it out from the setup already there? Lets see, there is a heading
called "Desktop". I wonder what kind of shortcuts could be there? Its must be
tough to figure out, lets check the help file: "Desktop: These are general
shortcuts for the... whole... desktop..." Brilliant! I must be on the path to
enlightenment. NO, I feel like I'm in an episode of the angry videogame nerd
reviewing one of the worst games ever. Oh, but I have been unfair to this
section. There is more, there is a "such as". Yes, instead of looking at the
listing of actual shorcuts available, I look at this stupid help file, with its
"such as" section listing some of the "finer" shortcuts to be had. POINTLESS
BULLSHIT!
This help file is so pathetic is reminds me of one of the bits on redvsblue.
There are two groups of soldiers fighting each other, and they are under the
orders of some "command". The orders from command are simple: try harder, do
better. Its funny because sometimes the attempts we make at the things we do
in life are so pathetic that that's all the advice that we can really be given;
try harder, do better.
Try harder, do better?
</rant>
Anyway, I thrashed that help file as much as I could. I hope you take
it with the humor intended. If you had trouble, I suggest you check out
the angry video game nerd on youtube, and redvsblue.com. Both are funny
as hell.
Back to the original point. Please make it easy to find out about keytouch.
Just include a blurb in the help file or something. Or make an "advanced"
button that tells you about keytouch. This would save those looking to setup
their keyboards ALLOT of trouble, and give them a greater feeling that their
hardware is strongly supported in Ubuntu.
** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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keytouch should be connected with gnome-keybindings-properties
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264209
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