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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Shortcuts displayed in tooltips
From:       timo.sinnemaki () helsinki ! fi
Date:       2008-05-18 19:46:48
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.1.10.0805182147320.14849 () localhost
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Hi,

I'm interested in hearing your opinions on whether it would be sensible 
for tooltips on widgets in kde applications to display a shortcut to the 
action on the given widget. Some applications do this -- GIMP, for 
example -- and although it looks slightly less clean, I think such a 
feature makes it quite a bit easier to learn how to use a UI efficiently.
I don't really have vast experience in programming in general, nor C++ in 
particular, but I'd still like to look into implementing the feature if 
others agree that it would be a nice thing to have.

I've taken a quick look at the code, and unless I'm mistaken, all tooltips 
in KDE are handled by the QToolTip class, so you can't reasonably make 
this work globally without modifying/replacing all present references to 
QToolTip and hoping developers won't mind switching to the new usage. (I
suppose redefining QToolTip with preprocessor macros would be too hairy?)


Cheers,
Timo Sinnemäki

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