Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 13:54 schrieb David Faure:

> > > > Did anyone mention already that it would be great if we had a
> > > > Windows-like Alt+Numpad mechanism in KDE? ;-)
> > > >
> > >     :)   That's not a Windows thing - that's the PC archetecture.  =
DOS,
> > >     : CP/M
> > >
> > > and Novell all did it too.  So does Linux - as long as you're not i=
n X.
> >
> > Gosh -- You are right. I've never noticed.
> >
> > I doubt, however, that any guru will ever convince me that it is a go=
od
> > thing we don't have this in X11. Esp. when typing in word processors =
I
> > miss this feature every few minutes, sometimes every few seconds. Whi=
ch
> > is one of the main reasons I still do a lot of WP work in Windows. Be=
ing
> > able to dig something like a quotation mark out in table 32 of
> > kcharselect and then copy & paste it is simply not good enough in the
> > long run. Nor would I want to put everything in autocorrect. (How wou=
ld
> > you define that you need a hyphen sometimes and sometimes an en or em
> > dash? Or sometimes an inch mark and sometimes a typographical quote?)
> >
> > If we could only convince a developer to implement this to KDE someho=
w
> > ...
>
> You know that I implemented it in KWord/KPresenter, right? Just try.

I'll be damned ... Thank you very much!

> For any wider usage, it would need to go into the widgets, e.g. QTextEd=
it,
> QLineEdit, or their KDE equivalents. So I'd first suggest trying to
> convince the trolls about it.

I will certainly send a request about this to the Trolls -- for what it's=
=20
worth. I think this would be a great thing to have in every Editor (esp.=20
KBabel) and text processing program. We'd need something, however, to=20
indicate the numbers to type on the numpad (as Windows does with their ch=
ar=20
selection utility). I talked to Bryce Nesbitt about this a while ago. May=
be I=20
should ask him again... ;-)

Regards,

Thomas

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