PATCH: webshortcuts

[David Faure]

On Monday 10 October 2005 13:47, Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> On Monday 10 October 2005 07:23, Leo Savernik wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 9. Oktober 2005 16:00 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> > > Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
> > > >Another argument for this change is that Firefox/Mozilla use a ' '
> > > > delimiter when it allows to define your own shortcuts.
> > > >
> > > >Anyways, we have to drop the use of ':' at some point. Whether this
> > > > happens in the 3.x lifetime or in KDE 4.0 does not matter to me...
> > >
> > > I'd say:
> > > 1) make space available _now_ for all shortcuts
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > > 2) drop the colon in KDE 4
> >
> > Keep it, but don't advertise it.

Yes, otherwise everyone who hasn't read this discussion, won't know anything
about step 1 above, will keep using ':', and will be very surprised that gg:foo
doesn't work in kde4 anymore. Why break things for user if they aren't broken?

> It is already an option right now. You can change between a space and a colon 
> in the web shortcut config dialog ; so for KDE4 we only need to change what 
> the default will be...

That's not the same as making both work, in both KDE3 and KDE4
(for the benefit of people who want to use a space, like mozilla users)

In documentation we can s/:/ / of course.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).