AW: AW: making fallback access keys configurable

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 11:17, Tobias Anton wrote:
>  A significant problem about KDE development is that one makes a patch,
>  nobody cares, it gets into some releases, and then another developer
>  complains and proposes another behaviour which often is different to both
>  previous versions.

this is actually why i've asked for a UI review policy for KDE4. when the TWG 
gets running in a real way i'll be bringing that up again. too much UI *crap* 
gets put into KDE apps, usually simply because nobody asks or nobody looks.

>  What I don't understand: Why do you want to revert a user interface change
>  that someone implemented with a specific idea in mind?

revert is a slightly strong word given the patch.

>  Wouldn't it perhaps 
>  suffice for you to simply disable accesskeys in your config?

this is what i usually do for things that i personally don't like but can 
understand the reasoning for. perhaps i really am out to lunch on this one, 
but i can't see how most people would like to have their page suddenly 
occluded by 100s of little yellow tags (i can't even read the bloody links on 
the pages when they show up often!) whenever they press CTRL.

i've heard many people complain about them; it wasn't until i sent the patch 
to this list that i heard people singing its praises. funny that. or perhaps 
not.

ergo i suggested/agreed that:

 - the modifier key should be changed
 - we do this in kde4
 - we enlist openusability.org people to help make the decision in a 
non-ad-hoc manner

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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