KPopupMenu (& hence K-Menu) keyboard navigation patch

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Sat Apr 27 22:24:59 BST 2002


On Friday 26 April 2002 04:05 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On April 27, 2002 01:38 am, David Faure wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 April 2002 09:18, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> > > The attached patch changes the method of keyboard navigation of the
> > > K-Menu and provides this fuctionality to any programmer using
> > > KPopupMenu who chooses so. It does so with an incremental search
> > > algorithm (eg. type "gr" for "graphics"), consistent with other areas
> > > of KDE (eg. konqueror navigation), and gives user feedback by
> > > underlining the currently entered key sequence.
> >
> > Sounds great - I'm missing keyboard navigation in e.g. Konqueror's
> > bookmark menus, typing the first letters of the submenu to open etc.
> > Would this method allow to do that?
>
> yes... this feature can be turned on in any kpopupmenu with a call to
> setKeyboardShortcutsEnabled(true). so bookmark menus, quick browser menus,
> the kmenu, etc... can all have the exact same (convenient) behaviour ...

Cool feature. Is there any reason why you would _not_ want to use it? Or 
stated otherwise, is there a reason why this can't be enabled for all 
popup-menus?

Cheers,
Waldo
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