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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Great idea? Overlay keyboard to show shortcuts
From:       Daniel Winter <dw () danielwinter ! de>
Date:       2008-06-16 2:04:35
Message-ID: 200806160404.36604.dw () danielwinter ! de
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Hello,

today I come up with something I believe is a great idea (sure I have to say 
this) ;-)

The problem: 

There are a lot of key shortcuts in KDE and its applications.  They are very 
usefull, but it is hard to learn and remember them. You could look in the 
menus and  find them. But to do that you will in most times use the mouse. Bad 
when you are working with the keyboard at the moment.  

(and when you use the mouse to find the shortcut you can use the mouse to do it 
at the same time)

The solution:

When you hold a key or key compination (for example the Windows-Key or 
ALT+CTRL) the actual screen fades out and a screen size overlay keyboard is 
shown. (just like the plasma dashboard)

On that keyboard the possible shortcuts are written on (maybe on the keys or 
next to them). Somehow colerfull marked to better understand them.  So all 
global shortcuts could be marked blue and all for the local active application 
yellow or something like that. 

Also the modicator keys on that keyboard would use some colors so that the 
description of the shortcut keys could be written in that color to which 
modificator key they belong.

You see I not complete thought that through and I have no mockups or something 
like that. But i really like that idea. What do you think?


And to them with a deeper understanding of the technical details:

How hard do you think would it be to make that reality?

DanielW


 
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