From kde-core-devel  Sat Mar 31 11:30:19 2007
From: Olaf Schmidt <ojschmidt () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:30:19 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE4 default shortcut theme
Message-Id: <200703311330.21297.ojschmidt () kde ! org>
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[ Ellen Reitmayr, Sa., 31. Mär. 2007 ]
> It was told earlier in this thread that Alt should work to get focus into
> the menu without pressing an accelerator key. It doesn;t work in all apps,
> but if that is fixed the hci wg is fine with Alt instead of F10 ;-)

I disagree.

I see serious accessibility and usability issues with this use of Alt:

* I once lost important work because I pressed Alt without realising it and 
key presses that should have gone into the document went into the menu 
instead.

* F10 to access the menu is a standard shortcut shared by Windows, GNOME and 
cross-platform applications like OpenOffice, which means that it cannot be 
used by KDE applications anyway that are intended to work in one of those 
environments.

Olaf