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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KSelectAction
From:       Hans Meine <hans_meine () gmx ! net>
Date:       2006-07-28 11:44:22
Message-ID: 200607281344.24220.hans_meine () gmx ! net
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Hi!

On Thursday, 27. July 2006 09:47, Thomas Zander wrote:
> Removing the accelerator manager is just not an option.
Yes it is... as long as there's a better substitute.

> GUIs are build more often without any accells assuming the manager will add
> them. And thats a good thing. 
Actually, Hamish pointed out a killer argument against accelerator managers;
when they were introduced, I was also among those who found the idea 
brilliant, however I changed my mind because *changing accelerators* are the 
worst thing to happen.

There might be a different between
- people using the accelerators to visually open a menu and choose items 
without using the mouse (accelerator managers are perfectly fine here), and
- people remembering the accelerators and using them for months as some sort 
of multi-key shortcuts.

I am among the latter, and I can tell you that it's a hell of a mess when the 
accelerators change, because suddenly you are activating random menu options 
(possibly dangerous, or at least hard-to-undo), and you have to carefully 
look what you actually did, and then train your brain not to do so again (it 
may happen several times before you learned).  That's what I call bad user 
experience, and I am very much in favor of ideas how to improve this.  (For 
example, introduce prioritized want-to-have-accelerators which are respected 
by the accelerator managers, or similar.)

Ciao, /  /
     /--/
    /  / ANS
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