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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Windows-key: Please don't blindly copy Windows
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2004-09-16 8:59:14
Message-ID: 200409161103.59235.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Wednesday 15 of September 2004 19:57, Ellis Whitehead wrote:
> Hi Lubos,
>
> long time, no see. ;)  My last cvs checkout is from December 2003, and
> unfortunately I don't foresee being able to get into KDE development again
> soon, if ever.  I think about it just about every weekend, but family and
> work...
>
> 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*

 So ... is it going to be a checkbox, or complete removal? Somebody decide ;).

 If that would be a checkbox, that'd probably also require fixing the numlock 
bug I guess. I personally think Alt+F1 is good enough, and show me a Windows 
user who actually uses the key and is clueless enough to start using Alt+F1 
instead.

-- 
Lubos Lunak
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