KControl: Keyboard Shortcuts needs you [Not for 3.4]

[Frans Englich]

On Monday 28 February 2005 00:19, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> For those looking to contribute,
>
> The Keyboard Shortcuts dialog could use some improvements. At the moment I
> think it's a good candidate for the interface hall of shame. The primary
> problem is the "tabs in tabs" design of the Shortcuts tab.

I also think that's a major problem.

I think it's also healthy to look at it from a wider perspective. We got in 
total 8 pages about keyboard options, and then I have even excluded the 
tabs-in-tabs.[1] Here needs clever thinking about what options that can be 
combined, which that should be removed, and what to put in "Detailed 
Options..." dialogs, because here's simply too much content.

I long ago wrote a patch which simplified one tab, to the extent its remaining 
options could be moved to another, combined with sanitized wording. It's 
attached. I don't propose it(then I first need to think about it), but anyone 
who take a look could use it as inspiration/combine it.

Large changes in KControl have been decided to be postponed until KDE 4.0, but 
since it's brought up.. 


Cheers,

		Frans

1.
This is how I count:
1: peripherals/keyboard
1 tab: Regional & Accessibility/Accessiblity::Keyboard
3 tabs: Regional & Accessibility/Keyboard Layout
3 tabs: Regional & Accessibility/Keyboard Shortcuts

Plus KHotKeys(three tabs).


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