{"id":701,"date":"2009-08-13T16:19:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T13:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2009-08-13T20:58:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T17:58:49","slug":"minor-uniformity-patch-for-smplayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2009\/08\/13\/minor-uniformity-patch-for-smplayer\/","title":{"rendered":"minor uniformity patch for smplayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things that good Linux applications should have is uniformity. Just like Mac OS X does. All applications should use the same keybindings to perform the same tasks. For example, on _every_ OS X application, in order to quit it you have to press “CMD+Q”, it’s that simple and everybody follows it. Everybody. On Linux though there are some applications that simply don’t care about uniformity. One of these applications is smplayer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While it is almost standard for Linux applications to quit using Ctrl+Q, smplayer simply doesn’t have this option. It has the option of closing the current video with Ctrl+X but it doesn’t have the simple option of quitting using a keyboard shortcut.<\/p>\n

So, the next (oneliner actually) patch does simply what I described above. It makes smplayer quit using “Ctrl+Q”.<\/p>\n

The screenshot that shows what the patch does:
\n\"smplayer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

smplayer-0.6.8-quit.patch<\/a>:
\n--- smplayer-0.6.8\/src\/baseguiplus.cpp 2009-08-13 16:07:04.000000000 +0300
\n+++ smplayer-0.6.8\/src\/baseguiplus.cpp 2009-08-13 16:08:22.000000000 +0300
\n@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@
\ntray->setToolTip( \"SMPlayer\" );
\nconnect( tray, SIGNAL(activated(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason)),
\nthis, SLOT(trayIconActivated(QSystemTrayIcon::ActivationReason)));
\n-
\n- quitAct = new MyAction(this, \"quit\");
\n+ quitAct = new MyAction(QKeySequence(\"Ctrl+Q\"), this, \"quit\");
\nconnect( quitAct, SIGNAL(triggered()), this, SLOT(quit()) );
\nopenMenu->addAction(quitAct);<\/code><\/p>\n

And a patched ebuild for smplayer-0.6.8 to use this minor patch (only one line is added to the ebuild):
\nsmplayer-0.6.8-r1.ebuild<\/a><\/p>\n

P.S. Keybindings in smplayer can be set through Preferences, and someone could actually put Ctrl+Q as the quit shortcut but I think that this should be the default setting like most other applications have it. Uniformity matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the things that good Linux applications should have is uniformity. Just like Mac OS X does. All applications should use the same keybindings to perform the same tasks. For example, on _every_ OS X application, in order to quit it you have to press “CMD+Q”, it’s that simple and everybody follows it. Everybody. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[37,150,142,601,595,163,602,165,157,164],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-linux","tag-bug","tag-bugfix","tag-ebuild","tag-gentoo","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-macosx","tag-media-player","tag-patch","tag-smplayer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t