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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:       2004-09-23 16:43:04
Message-ID: 200409231843.04777.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Thursday 16 of September 2004 11:03, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> 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.

 Hmm ... let me ask the other way around: Does somebody object to me removing 
the feature?

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Lubos Lunak
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