From kde-core-devel  Mon Jun 11 19:52:28 2001
From: Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:52:28 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: global shortcuts
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=99229131619824

On Monday 11 June 2001 18:27, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> > I'm not so sure if it is a good idea to change (probably well-known, at
> > least by us) keybindings, but on the other hand I like the new 4-modifier
>
> It would be a really bad idea! The current keybindings have been chosen
> because many of them have become defacto-standards on various
> desktop-OSes (not only Windows). It's _no_ option to go for us to use a
> cryptic emacs-like niche-solution which ignores existing standards
> by default if we want to make KDE a popular desktop environment.

Agreed totally, we did not spent weeks creating these shortcuts because it 
was fun ;)
Check the kde-look archives if you want to find out what I mean.

btw, what is a meta-key anyway?  It only does alt here...

Functions like "Windows->window close (ALL)" seem to ignore the concepts we 
have accepted over the time, most of them with reason!
Things like "Clipboard->show klipper popupmenu" can't work without some work 
on klipper itself, seems like a not-to-well-thought about action.

Please revert and take the time to talk about this stuff.


ps. could you tell me how to get my window-moving and window-resizing back 
using my alt-key?

-- 
Thomas Zander