** Description changed: 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 get a "such as" to point out some of the "finer" shortcuts to be had. POINTLESS BULLSHIT! + 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 allot of people trouble, and give them a greater feeling that their hardware is strongly supported in Ubuntu. + 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.
-- keytouch should be connected with gnome-keybindings-properties https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264209 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
