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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE4 default shortcut theme
From:       Olaf Schmidt <ojschmidt () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-03-31 11:30:19
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

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