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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KAction port: do we need to support multiple shortcuts per action?
From:       Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <gustavo () gsbarbieri ! sytes ! net>
Date:       2005-11-29 16:27:49
Message-ID: 200511291428.01154.gustavo () gsbarbieri ! sytes ! net
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On Tuesday 29 November 2005 14:02, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 November 2005 02:52, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 November 2005 16:05, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My port of KAction to use QAction is progressing well (it even looks
> > > like QAction could completely replace KAction).  However, it seems that
> > > having multiple shortcuts per action will not sustainable in the new
> > > model (from discussions held with Simon Hausmann).
> > >
> > > Trolltech considered supporting multiple shortcuts when they were
> > > writing Qt4, but decided against it, due to the complexity it would
> > > cause and because it was thought to be bad usability wise.
> > >
> > > In KDE, multiple shortcuts are the default for cut/copy/paste, as well
> > > as occasionally in other places (but are certainly not the norm).
> >
> > Could you explain more clearly what 'multiple shortcuts' is?
> >
> > I can imagine 2 things;
> > * Having more then one complete shortcut per action.
>
> This is what I meant.  In KDE, this is provided by KShortcut, which can
> have up to 4 separate key sequences (although it seems only 2 are supported
> by the config gui).  In KDE3, KAction allows any of the sequences to
> activate the same action.  If we were to use QAction as a base for KAction
> in KDE4, to keep this feature we (or Trolltech) would have to add multiple
> sequence support.

Is this that difficult? I don't know internals, but it doesn't seem to be, 
looks like registering one pointer to the action.

I'm one that found multiple shortcuts useful and use it a lot. Examples: 
sometimes I use another keyboard without multimedia keys, so I need to use 
Win+{X,C,B} with Amarok and others.

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