[maemo-developers] Fremantle fullscreen mode [was Re: Call for testers with N900 for vncviewer]

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 17:13 +0200, ext Luca Donaggio wrote:
> If there's neither hardware button to toggle fullscreen mode nor a
> default keyboard shortcut and the preferred method is via the
> touchscreen then a specific widget should be included in hildon, just
> to avoid duplicating the same code or, even worse, 'reinventing the
> wheel' for every app.
> 
> Maybe it's a candidate for inclusion in Hildon Extras [1] -hint
> hint- ?
> 
> For now I'll stick with a keyboard shortcut, maybe CTRL-Shift-F would
> do.

You could listen for this key combination in the HildonWindow, so that
the HildonWindow that has input focus would handle changing the
fullscreenness (i.e. send the right ClientMessage). That way it wouldn't
need to be global shortcut with all the complications.

-Kimmo

> 
> Luca Donaggio
> 
> [1] https://garage.maemo.org/projects/hildon-extras/
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Henrik Hedberg
> <henrik.hedberg at innologies.fi> wrote:
>         Cornelius Hald wrote:
>         
>          > I don´t think there is already a widely used keyboard
>         shortcut.
>         
>         
>            The full screen toggling should be done with the touch
>         screen, yes.
>         
>            However, there are some shortcuts in the keyboard (of which
>         I found
>         by accident):
>         
>         CTRL-Backspace = Open the task switcher (can be used to
>         somehow replace
>         the full screen button)
>         
>         CTRL-Shift-X = Open a new terminal (which is very handy if the
>         hildon-desktop has jammed ;)
>         
>         CTRL-Shift-P = Take a screenshot (which is saved in
>         ${HOME}/MyDocs/.images/Screenshots)
>         
>            BR,
>         
>            Henrik
>         
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