AW: AW: AW: AW: making fallback access keys configurable

[Tobias Anton]

You could as well be of the opinion that ctrl is just a key as every other
and should be treated as such. Unfortunately, too much key handling is
hardcoded in QT, making it hard to impossible to change certain behaviours. 

I think the idea behind the usage pattern "press ctrl once to make shortcuts
appear, press it again to make them disappear" initially was to use ctrl
like a modifier, i.e. "show shortcuts as long as ctrl is pressed", but then
it became obvious that holding down ctrl while reading the accesskeys is
very inconvenient. To keep that paradigm, yet removing the annoyance, a
possible solution could thus be: 
- show the accesskey tooltips on Ctrl press
- hide accesskey tooltips on Ctrl release if any other UI event had occurred
since the corresponding Ctrl press.
- otherwise, show tooltips until any key or mouse button changes status.

Unfortunately, this will not work properly if the window manager dispatches
all UI events between the ctrl-down and the following ctrl-up to another
application. I think this is exactly what happens in your case, but most
probably there is a solution for that, too. Particularly, I am thinking of
something like the X11 window leave events, but I'm not too deep into the
details of X11 event handling.

Cheers
Tobias

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: David Faure [mailto:faure at kde.org] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. März 2006 11:34
An: kfm-devel at kde.org
Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: making fallback access keys configurable

On Wednesday 01 March 2006 00:50, Tobias Anton wrote:
> So let's try to
> separate the bug from the feature: How and why exactly does it disturb
you?
> Maybe if triggering the accesskey would be restricted to certain sensible
> special cases?

Almost every time I use Ctrl+F2  Ctrl+F1 to switch desktops and back,
when I release Ctrl above the kmail reader window, I get the access keys
popping up. Very annoying. I do believe the shortcut should be changed,
because Ctrl is a modifier, not a key that is supposed to do something by
itself.

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