Shortcuts UI (Re: KDE/kdelibs/kdeui/dialogs)

[Lubos Lunak]

On Sunday 24 of August 2008, Michael Jansen wrote:
> SVN commit 851690 by mjansen:
>
> Remove the code for subgrouping the actions in a action collection with
> special named actions ("Group:"). It assumes actions in a collection keep
> the order they where inserted. That's not true anymore since the
> KKeyChooser -> KShortcutsDialog redesign.

 But keeping the order is part of it. Currently the shortcut dialogs are a 
mess with shortcuts put "randomly" - "Move Window" and "Resize Window" are 10 
shortcuts apart, shortcuts for directional switching of desktops are even 
further from next/previous desktop switching, or with CZ locale shortcuts for 
moving a window are left, down, right, <something else>, <something else>, 
up.

 They need to be grouped logically and kept in a logical order.

> We have to find a way to provide that functionality differently. For the
> reason have a look at kates "configure shortcuts" dialog.

 I don't see anything special about it.

> Anyone an idea? I think of creating something like KActionGroups.

 I think every action should have its position in the UI specified, both 
grouping and position within that group. I don't care much about how it's 
done API-wise, could be even simply KAction::setShortcutGroup( QString group, 
int position ).

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