From kde-core-devel  Tue Apr 03 23:15:12 2007
From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:15:12 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE4 default shortcut theme
Message-Id: <euun60$nb$1 () sea ! gmane ! org>
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Olaf Schmidt wrote:
> I agree that we need to clearly define "safe" shortcut ranges for 
> applications.
> 
> Unfortunately it is impossible to do this in a radically new way if we want 
> our applications to work on other platforms.
> 
> If we invent our own, completely independent keyboard shortcut scheme, then we 
> are in effect telling users that we do not want them to use KDE applications 
> if they also use GNOME, and that we don't care about KDE applications on 
> Windows and MacOS.

On the contrary, I think this is *exactly* what we should do. This way 
there is a clear benefit to having a pure KDE environment (good for 
us)... and the whole reason shortcut schemes *exist* is to satisfy the 
interoperability concern. What we seem to have right now is a KDE scheme 
that is in fact not a KDE scheme at all but a mishmash of other schemes.

-- 
Matthew
Obscurity: +5