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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Windows-key: Please don't blindly copy Windows
From:       Thomas Zander <TZander () factotummedia ! nl>
Date:       2004-09-16 6:14:32
Message-ID: 20040916061432.GB333 () factotummedia ! nl
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 08:03:24PM +0200, S?bastien Lao?t [temporar] wrote:
> Le mer 15/09/2004 ? 19:57, Ellis Whitehead a ?crit :
> > The Win-key shortcut to the K-Menu isn't very practical, since the K-Menu has 
> > so horribly many entries that keyboard navigation isn't practical.  For this 
> > reason, I wouldn't mind the functionality being removed.  Currently, it 
> > parallels the single Alt-key press activating the menu bar in an application.  
> > But actually, I think that's a bad misfeature, so maybe you could remove that 
> > too while you're at it! *grin*
> 
> Just to give my opinion on this.
> 
> I love to save space anywhere and removed the K-Menu button from my
> (overloaded by plugins) kicker. It give the extra pixels for the
> (overloaded too) taskbar.
> I use hotkeys to launch programs or Alt+F2, but sometimes I want to see
> all the installed applications or launch a rarly used program (not in
> Alt+F2 history anymore or too long to type).
> So I use the Lin/Win key for that.

You already use Alt-F2, did you notice that Alt-F1 does also show what you
want?

ps. I never liked the feature; I had a patch disabling it as soon as Ellis
committed the feature to CVS, but I'm not sure what the implications would
be in removing the feature altogether.
-- 
Thomas Zander

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