From kde-core-devel  Tue Nov 29 17:05:03 2005
From: Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () trolltech ! com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:05:03 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KAction port: do we need to support multiple shortcuts per action?
Message-Id: <200511291805.03805.ettrich () trolltech ! com>
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On Tuesday 29 November 2005 17:44, Thomas Zander wrote:
> Think of things like 'ctrl-=' and 'ctrl-+' being used to allow a logical
> key for font-enlargement but do not force the user to use shift.

That's a different bug, but yes, it's a bug. We wanted to fix it for a long 
time, but never got around doing it (it's on the project plans again).

The trouble is that there really are two kinds of shortcuts: one kind is the 
symbol you want to generate, the other kind is the key with the symbol. The 
latter doesn't always work, but in most cases it is what the users (and the 
programmer) expects. 

"Shift-+" as a shortcut really should mean "the shift key is pressed down, and 
the key with the + symbol on it". The fact that you sometimes need shift to 
generate the + symbol shouldn't matter.

Solving this on X doesn't exactly trivial, from a key press to a key event we 
have numerous levels of abstraction. I'm sure it can be solved somehow, but I 
haven't looked into it yet. 

 Matthias