[apaku at gmx.de: Re: KDE/kdevplatform/plugins/contextbrowser]

[Matthew Woehlke]

David nolden wrote:
> Am Freitag 23 Januar 2009 23:50:01 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
>> This is just wrong. Users _expect_ an Alt keypress+release to activate the
>> menu, thats the default since KDE 3.0, you can't intercept that. So please
>> revert and instead make sure nobody can use just "Alt" as the
>> "magicModifier".
> 
> It's a style-option. In oxygen-style, it is disabled. That's why I made ALT 
> the "fixed" modifier(It cannot be changed atm, since it is distributed over 
> kate and kdevelop).
> 
> Then I noticed that it does not work in some other styles. Unfortunately the 
> style-option can not be overriden app-locally, that's the reason for the hack. 
> I think it is totally ok, since this is much more valuable than the useless 
> ALT+release menu activation(You can jump directly to any menu using 
> ALT+underlined_char). if we have a better use for that action, why not use it?

And the obvious question would be, isn't making one app behave 
differently a usability violation?

Better yet, /why/ should it be changed for only one app?

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Matthew
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