[kde-doc-english] genshortcutents

[Burkhard Lück]

Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013, 16:16:58 schrieb David Faure:
> Dear documentation writers,
> 
> As part of the KDE Frameworks 5 effort (restructuring kdelibs), I stumbled
> upon the tool called "genshortcutents", which sits next to meinproc in
> kdelibs/kdoctools, and is documented as:
> "Generates DocBook entities for key shortcuts of standard actions".
> 
Interesting idea, did not know of it.

> It seems that the idea (when Frerich committed it, in KDE3 times) was to
> generate a kde-standards-accels.entities file, and install it as part of
> kdelibs.
> However this broke with KDE 4.0 (when switching from unsermake to cmake),
> and the fact that nobody fixed it since then, would seem to indicate that
> nobody is actually using these entities.
> 
I have never seen the usage of such an entity since 3.0 (more than 10 years).

> The reason this is showing up now is that we're looking at replacing (long
> term) KStandardShortcut with the Qt QKeySequence standard accel, so we're
> wondering about the impact on that code.
> 
> But if it's unused.... can we get rid of it, rather than have to worry about
> porting it ?

Unused since years, no need to port it therefore

Thanks.

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Burkhard Lück