KDE4 default shortcut theme

[Ellen Reitmayr]

On Thursday 29 March 2007 20:49, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On čt 29. března 2007, David Faure wrote:
> > 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...
>
>  Is it really that common? I myself couldn't think of any F10 shortcut (not
> that I remember that many of them) and if F10 wasn't "Step Over" in
> KDevelop which makes it very a very often pressed shortcut I'd even try to
> claim that activating menu would be much more used than all app-specific
> F10 shortcuts together. And something harder to press like Ctrl+F10 IMHO
> wouldn't be right for such shortcut, especially given that it has to be
> followed by more keypresses. Not that I'd suggest stealing F10 from apps,
> but, well, I am :).

It was told earlier in this thread that Alt should work to get focus into the 
menu without pressing an accelerator key. It doesn;t work in all apps, but if 
that is fixed the hci wg is fine with Alt instead of F10 ;-)


-- 
Ellen Reitmayr
KDE Usability Project
usability.kde.org
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