[Kde-accessibility] Changing konqueror's accesskeys system

[bj at altern.org]

On Thursday 15 July 2004 08.00, you wrote:
> Since which version exactly are accesskeys supported? And what was the
> exact key combination before this change?

The previous combination was: ctrl+alt+key.
But not all elements were supported (see
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=107902290707432&w=2)
This was apparently backported to kde 3.2.2 (see last comment from
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45788)

> While I agree that this is a good idea for normal cases, please be aware
> of the "Sticky Keys" setting in kcontrol. With "Sticky Keys" activated,
> you can press [Ctrl] and then [S] instead of [Ctrl][S] to save a page.
> This is important for people who can only hit one key at a time.
>
> This means that there will still be a collision of shortcuts if sticky
> keys are used. This is still better than having the shortcut collision in
> all cases. Maybe [Ctrl], then [Alt], then [Accesskey] could be used if
> sticky keys are enabled.

I cannot think of a satisfying solution for sticky keys.
Ctrl then Alt then accesskey would come back to the previous system and
conflict with global shortcuts (eg: ctrl+alt+d to switch desktop, ctrl+alt+l
to lock it,...).

I first thought pressing a modifier twice would "unstick" the key, so that we
could use a double press on ctrl to activate accesskeys, but it doesn't
work...
Does anybody have a suggestion ?

By the way, it's the first time I used sticky keys, and I thought it would be
nice to have a kicker applet showing the user which modifier keys are
activated. Maybe it already exists ?