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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Change default setting of keyboard accelerators to "Show when needed"
From:       Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date:       2012-03-15 11:04:28
Message-ID: 20120315110428.GA7226 () barmbek
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On 14.03.12 23:41:08, Marc Deop wrote:
> On 02:18:47 PM Valentin wrote:
> > I posted this question just in the kde bugtracke, but maybe here it's
> > better to discuss.
> > 
> > I think, that only a few people really use the keyboard accelerators
> > but they are enabled by default. Why not show them only when needed?
> > There is a nice select box in the KDE oxygen settings.
> > 
> > There are 3 options
> > - Allways show
> > - Allways hide
> > - Show when needed
> > 
> > The default setting is "Allways show". I think, we should make "Show
> > when needed" default because it looks better. Also Windows and GNOME
> > are not showing keyboard accelerators by default.
> > 
> > Regards, Valentin
> > 
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> 
> Now that we are talking about keyboard accelerators. Check this rekonq bug: \
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275858 
> The thing is that rekonq's tabs get a keyboard accelerator but many times it \
> conflicts with kde shorcuts and it shows a warning missage. 
> Suggestions in aproach on how to solve this issue? (because I thinks rekonq is not \
> the only program which faces this problem)

The question is why does rekonq have Alt+<letter> shortcuts in the first
place. Unless it removes all manually-assigned accelerators and disables
the KDE accelerator-manager having default-shortcuts of Alt+<letter>
needs to be considered a bug in rekonq IMHO.

Andreas


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