Patch: checkbox to enable/disable Access Keys activation

[Luciano Montanaro]

On Friday 05 January 2007 13:15, Juan Carlos Torres wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I guess most KDE users are familiar with the little yellow boxes that
> appear whenever you press the Ctrl key while browsing a web page in
> Konqueror. What most users are not familiar with is how to turn them off.
> It's one of those Secret Config Settings, explained on this page:
>
> http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Secret+Config+Settings#_Disable_t
>he_accessibility_squares_CTRL_button_normally_activates_in_Konqueror_aka_A
>ccess_Keys_
>
> I decided to poke around (again) and added a checkbox in the Web Browser
> settings to enable or disable the activation of Access Keys. There are
> two places where Access Keys can be disabled, in Konqueror only or in all
> apps apps using KHTML (Akregator, KTorrent, etc.). I decided to make the
> patch affect all apps using KHTML so that it will be consistent.
>
> Here's a screenshot of the checkbox:
> http://jucato.org/stuff/kcontrol_accesskeys.png
> (Usability guys are probably going to strangle me for adding another
> option to an already full dialog.)
>
> Pardon if there are errors. I'm not really a programmer (yet). Just a
> wannabe who wants to scratch some itches.
>

Well, I think if the accesskeys were bound to a different key, they would 
not be the problem they are currently.

Using a qualifier key for a shortcut has its problems.
Luciano

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