KPopupMenu (& hence K-Menu) keyboard navigation patch

[Jason Katz-Brown]

2002 4月 27 土曜日 13:58、Aaron J. Seigo さんは書きました:
> On April 27, 2002 03:24 pm, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > 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?
>
> technically there is no reason why it couldn't be enabled for all menus.
>
> but it does render normal menu shortcuts useless, so it is slightly less
> efficient in the case of short static menus. especially if those menus have
> multiple items with the same first letter(s).

Also, with languages in which you can't type the actually letters, this 
doesn't work. This would be any language which needs an input system. It's 
not ideal now, where random letters are used for shortcuts (the normal 
english shortcuts), but at least it's possible to select menu items.

>
> as an example, in this kmail composer window that i'm typing right now to
> switch to a fixed width font i currently only need to do:
>
>  Alt-V W
>
> using the keyboard shortcuts i'd need to do:
>
>  Alt-V f i <enter>
>
> i think this method is only really a win on dynamic menus, especially
> larger ones. one could always try it for a few days enabled globally to see
> how it felt, though....

Jason