Fwd: Global Shortcuts

[David Faure]

On Thursday 28 February 2008, Michael Jansen wrote:
> But if we keep the change its current form it is possible for an user to make 
> each and every action a global action. A programmer has no way to prevent that.

If I want to configure my KDE so that Ctrl+Alt+C executes "new composer window" in kmail,
whereever the focus currently is, why should a programmer (i.e. the KAction design) prevent
me from doing that? I don't understand why we would want to limit configurability arbitrarily.

(Yes there other ways of doing the above example, like khotkeys and running "kmail --composer" there,
but that's just one example, and "kmail --composer" requires command-line knowledge, while setting
a global shortcut in the shortcut configuration dialog does not)

I thought "globalShortcutAllowed" was more of a setEnabled() call; enabling/disabling the
shortcut at a given time, with the possibility that a change in the state of the application
might toggle this later on.

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