Review Request 128019: Remove F1 as standard shortcut for Help

[David Edmundson]

> On May 26, 2016, 12:12 a.m., Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > As Kai said: Activating the help cursor by pressing F1 (and actually putting useful help behind it!) would be a great thing to have from a user's perspective.
> > Contextual help would be much more helpful than a plain old help text, and changing the cursor to the help cursor would be a far less annoying unintended action than opening the help browser.
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> > The question is: Do we think there is a chance to get developers to actually put useful contextual help in their UIs in the the future, or will it likely just be doing nothing in the vast majority of apps?

You've just described "what's this" text that we currently have.
You sometimes see a ? in the window manager decoration, for example in systemsettings.

So it's not a quesion of guessing, you can see how widely unused it is right now.


- David


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On May 25, 2016, 11:01 p.m., Albert Astals Cid wrote:
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> (Updated May 25, 2016, 11:01 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and KDE Usability.
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> Repository: kconfig
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> Description
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> F1 is too important and too easy to trigger for something like Help, that be honest you don't need a shortcut for (since you don't invoke Help that often).
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> Diffs
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>   src/gui/kstandardshortcut.cpp 6be6309 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128019/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Albert Astals Cid
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