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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: Keyboard shortcuts and applets
From:       Emdek <emdeck () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-04-13 20:39:51
Message-ID: op.uscecpene84fud () michal
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On Monday 13-04-2009 19:39:00 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday 12 April 2009, Emdek wrote:
> > On Sunday 12-04-2009 18:23:00 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org> wrote:
> > > On Sunday 12 April 2009, Emdek wrote:
> > > > If yes, I think that that there should be added information in
> > > > configuration, for what is that shortcut intended. Or maybe separate  
> > it
> > > > from rest of applet configuration
> > > 
> > > what benefit is there to this? the downsides would be more entries in
> > > context
> > > menus, having to provide more buttons in the applet handle and having  
> > to
> > > visit
> > > more places for configuration which in turn requires the user to  
> > build a
> > > detailed mental model about "what kind of configuration i'm doing"
> > 
> > Ok, right, but there maybe should be at least some description for that
> > keyboard shortcut (only general, adding possibility to set own for each
> > applet could be maybe useful, to explain what it do in that plasmoid,  
> > but
> > then we need a way to set this information etc., and this could be too  
> > big
> > problem and not too big benefit).
> 
> yes, i don't think it's worth it for the benefit.

Ok, but I'm still thinking that there could be some general information on shortcut \
page, that says that triggering that shortcut will gave keyboard focus to that applet \
etc. What do you thing about this kind of description?



> a widget offering additional global shortcuts on its own is going to  
> usually
> be a bad idea (they are in limited supply), but what we could do easily  
> this:

Yes, right, but in case of for example kind of media player applet having more than \
one global accessible action could be useful (but maybe could be also achieved by \
triggering focus shortcut first and then "local" ones?).



> when creating the shortcuts page, go through all actions in d->actions  
> and add
> them to the page.

So maybe there could be added method that returns list of actions that we want to add \
to configuration dialog, similar to that for contextual actions? Then we could check \
if it is global or not using isGlobalShortcutEnabled() and then display two group \
boxes, one for local and one for global shortcuts. This is only idea of course.
Who codes decides. ;-)



So what solution you suggest for that problem when we want to use activated() to tell \
panel to unhide (like in Tasks applet) and use it's activation shortcut to perform \
action? Should be there added new action with global shortcut?
Or this could be done in another way?




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