contextmenu shortcut broken (was Re: Kuickshow's UI)

[Carsten Pfeiffer]

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On Thursday 18 July 2002 10:52, Klas Kalass wrote:

> That reminds me of something: Is it just my system, or is the contextmenu
> shortcut broken?
> In the kmail editor, the menu key works, but not my other defined shortcut
> and in all other apps I tried (Konqueror, KDesktop, Kate) it does not work
> at all. This applies to a recent CVS ( few days old) but I have seen this
> before (I don't know when it started) with a fresh install and a fresh
> user.

You're right, same here. Frankly, I have never used that key to access a 
contextmenu, so I don't know when this could have become broken.

> Regarding menubar vs. contextmenu: Menubar is more obvious because it is
> visible. Everybody who knows how to use keyboard for navigation knows that
> he just needs to press Alt + <whatever> to open the menu.
> A Contextmenu is "hidden" and thus not obvious that it exists. Furthermore
> it should usually operate on an object, thus providing options to
> manipulate this object (text, files in konqueror etc.). So at least "show
> next/previous" and "close" are non-standard entries and Gimp-Style UI, not
> KDE.

True. I have only added them due to a feature request tho ;) But I'll add a 
toolbar soon.

> When kuickshow is started without a file the interface (filebrowser mode)
> is simply not usable without a mouse, or did I miss something?

Why not? You can do everything with the keyboard as well.

> So I think that your app would benefit a lot from a menubar for the
> filebrowser mode.

It already has one since yesterday :)

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer
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