KDE4 default shortcut theme

[David Faure]

On Thursday 29 March 2007, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Thursday 29 of March 2007, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Thursday 29 March 2007 12:52, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > On Thursday 29 March 2007, Ellen Reitmayr wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 29 March 2007 11:58, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > as an alternative. alt only works in combination with an accelerator
> > > > keys.
> > >
> > > No, pressing Alt alone focuses the menu
> >
> > Yes, and the first time I saw it was in Win95.  Which IMO makes it a
> > standard.
> 
>  Which however doesn't necessarily mean that much, as there's 
> another "standard" called pressing Win alone opens the system menu. Which 
> we've tried to implemented and eventually gave up. They're about the same. 
> Or, to complete the list, yet another similar (mis)feature is pressing Ctrl 
> alone shows accesskeys in KHTML.

Yes. All three single-modified-shortcuts tend to trigger by mistake.
I have seen my wife fight with kmail which wouldn't accept key input anymore 
after pressing Alt by accident.
And I am annoyed by accesskeys showing up on Ctrl alone like everyone else, of course.

Alt alone should go. But F10 alone ... a very common shortcut for many things
(kdevelop, new folder in konqueror...)... I would have suggested Ctrl+F10 (to still be
near the F10 standard that Ellen says is used by other DEs), but she's already suggesting
that one for something else...


About Ctrl+R for reload: the standard action already has Qt::Key_F5 and
Qt::Key_Refresh (what's that? there are keyboards with a Refresh key?).
Konq replaces the latter with Ctrl+R - we have room for only two alternate shortcuts;
hmm, I wonder if this limitation still stands at the technical level, or only in the API...


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David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).