From kde-core-devel  Thu Mar 29 15:40:52 2007
From: Jakob Petsovits <jpetso () gmx ! at>
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:40:52 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE4 default shortcut theme
Message-Id: <200703291740.52618.jpetso () gmx ! at>
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On Thursday, 29. March 2007, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> We need to have consistent shortcut schemes if we want anyone to remember
> them. And there must be no exceptions for anything except the most
> standard, most common shortcuts. Applications must not fuddle around with
> Alt-*. Just finding free shortcuts doesn't cut it, we need a vision.

...and I wanted to restate that the most important outcome of this will be a 
document where app developers can look up which shortcut ranges are still 
free for them. The most severe annoyances come from applications that don't 
respect the (currently unwritten, but essentially already there) rules for 
assigning shortcuts.

If we can say "Your app uses a shortcut outside the defined ranges", such 
cases can be fixed, and everyone wins. Except for the "compatibility" people, 
but those are really, really supposed to have their own shortcut schemes, and 
not using HIG-violating ones by default.