Ctrl+Y shortcut for redo

[André Wöbbeking]

On Thursday 31 August 2006 13:32, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> at the risk of starting a huge flamewar: The KDE user interface
> guidelines currently list Ctrl+Shift+Z as only shortcut for 'redo'.
> What do you think about adding Ctrl+Y as additional shortcut for that
> action?

You speak about KDE4, don't you?

> On Windows and Mac OS X Ctrl+Y is available as additional shortcut,
> too, and I personally find it very annoying when switching between
> the three that I can't portably use Ctrl+Y (which is much easier to
> reach for my clumsy sausage fingers :)
>
> Or is it usability wise a big nononono to have two shortcuts?

Right now in KDE3/Qt3 Ctrl+Y is already hardcoded in e.g. QLineEdit and 
QTextEdit. So IMO we should reserve Ctrl+Y for redo in KDE3 and 4. 
Otherwise the executed action depends on which widget has focus and 
this is hard to explain/undestand.


Cheers,
André