Review Request 128019: Remove F1 as standard shortcut for Help

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

> On Mai 26, 2016, 12:12 vorm., 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?
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     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.
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>     So it's not a quesion of guessing, you can see how widely unused it is right now.
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> Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>     Sorry, I should have expressed myself more clearly.
>     I knew full well what I'd described, and I knew full well that it was hardly used.
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>     The question was rather "Could we _make_ developers use it more consistently if we officially made it the primary help system?"

Also we would need to make a KDeclarative equivalent for it because - as always - QML sucks in this regard and doesn't have any notion of a "What's this" feature.


- Kai Uwe


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On Mai 25, 2016, 11:01 nachm., Albert Astals Cid wrote:
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> (Updated Mai 25, 2016, 11:01 nachm.)
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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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