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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KAction port: do we need to support multiple shortcuts per action?
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-11-29 15:11:53
Message-ID: 200511291611.53935.faure () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 29 November 2005 16:05, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> Trolltech considered supporting multiple shortcuts when they were writing Qt4, 
> but decided against it, due to the complexity it would cause and because it 
> was thought to be bad usability wise.

Well it works in KDE, and it has worked for a long time...

> In KDE, multiple shortcuts are the default for cut/copy/paste, as well as 
> occasionally in other places (but are certainly not the norm).

Yes, they are certainly useful for cut/copy/paste.

> My questions are:
> 
> 1) Do people agree with the assessment that multiple shortcuts per action is 
> bad for usability?

??? I certainly don't agree with that.
Half the users use Ctrl+C, the other half uses Ctrl+Insert, I'd say that on the contrary
it's bad for usability if multiple shortcuts are NOT supported.

> 2) Will we need a way to support multiple shortcuts in KDE4?

I have really mixed feelings about this QAction stuff...

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

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