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[vinagre] Keybinding changes don't persist across sessions

Bug #233918 reported by Scott Severance
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vinagre (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Vinagre uses F11 as the fullscreen shortcut. However, since F11 is a shortcut that I use frequently in my VNC sessions, I've remapped fullscreen to F8. Unfortunately, the change doesn't persist across sessions.

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Scott Severance (scott.severance) wrote :

This isn't a duplicate of bug 223060. That bug is about sending keys through to the remote session. This is about the fact that when you change keyboard shortcuts, they don't persist across sessions.

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Jonh Wendell (wendell) wrote :

By 'duplicate' I meant that this feature is useless to me. It's better to hidden all shortcuts at all than being able to change them, in a context of a VNC viewer.

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Scott Severance (scott.severance) wrote :

I disagree for three reasons:

1) The GUI offers the option to be able to redefine keys. As long as the option is there, it's a bug for it to not work.

2) Redefining keys is a standard part of GTK (or Gnome--I'm not sure which). It's a handy feature that works everywhere else I've tried it. I know that Gnome delights in removing useful features in the name of simplification, but doing so is a Bad Thing.

3) I don't see how it's possible to design a full-featured VNC client without at least one keyboard shortcut. Once you switch to fullscreen, you have to have some way to get back out. Adding a button to switch back to normal mode would either potentially get in the way or require a VNC toolbar or something, which would break the fullscreen. Vncviewer handled this situation well. If you hit F8, it would pop up a menu. One of the items on that menu was one to send F8 to the remote machine. (There are many thing that vncviewer does wrong, but this isn't one of them.)

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Jonh Wendell (wendell) wrote :

Fixed upstream. The fix will be available in Vinagre 2.23.3.

Changed in vinagre:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package vinagre - 2.23.4-1

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vinagre (2.23.4-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New upstream releases:
    - Fixes scrolling. Closes: #482564.
    - Added a gconf option to disable all menu shortcuts.
      Closes: #465606, LP: #223060.
    - Persist changes in menu shortcuts. LP: #233918.
    - Rework 'connect' and 'edit bookmark' dialogs so it's possible to
      specify options like scaling, fullscreen... LP: #205253.
    - debian/copyright: updated
    - debian/control: b-d on libpanel-applet2-dev, required for the
      new applet.
    - debian/NEWS: document the bookmark migration from
      ~/.gnome2/vinagre.bookmarks to ~/.local/share/vinagre.
  * Update Standards-Version. No changes needed.

 -- Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:18:35 +0100

Changed in vinagre:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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