[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 0/3] RFE: Add a way to release keyboard grabs without reaching for the mouse

[Pavel Grunt]

Hi

----- Original Message -----
> 
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Marc-André Lureau
> <mlureau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> These patches give the user an option to define and use a keyboard
> >> shortcut
> >> for disabling the inputs.
> >> When the inputs are disabled the user can use all the keyboard
> >> shortcuts (eg
> >> alt+tab, ctrl+alt+del),
> >> also the screensaver of the client is working (rhbz#1121446).
> >>
> >> The inputs can be enabled by using the same keyboard shortcut.
> >>
> >> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85331
> >
> > That's an interesting approach. Have you a reason to implement the
> > keybinding in spice-gtk instead of virt-viewer?
> 
> Having it in spice-gtk gives the functionality for free for another
> clients than virt-viewer, right? I guess it's an enough good reason
> to
> have it in spice-gtk instead of virt-viewer.
>

Well that's true. To be honest I implemented this way because I wanted it as a "spice feature" and didn't want to cause any inconsistency when using virt-viewer with gtk-vnc. But this feature is more about starting using "disable-inputs" property, and switching its value can be implemented in virt-viewer as well.

>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Fabiano Fidêncio
> 
Pavel