Hi!

Francesco Fumanti wrote:

>>>Should the main movie window not always react to the arrow keys,
>>>regardless of the focus?
>>
>>No. People expect to be able to use the cursor keys for navigation, i.e.
>>inside menus, lists and other input boxes.
> 
> 
> Why not use other keys? For example
> b for backward
> f for forward

Because it's hard to find a key that isn't in use yet. `b', for example,
sets a bookmark.

> and make the keys configurable in the settings file; in other words keys 
> that don't have a system assignment and that could be used regardless of 
> the focus!?

I don't know if Qt lets you do that in a portable way.

> Moreover, if somebody decides to enhance the key bindings part and to 
> make the keys configurable in the settings file, I would suggest to not 
> only define the two keys for backward and forward; but it would probably 
> be simpler for the user to also have keys without modifier to replace 
> the scrollwheel+modifier.

Remember that the alphabet only has 26 characters, and that we already
use a lot of them.

-- 
Michael "Tired" Riepe <mich...@mr511.de>
X-Tired: Each morning I get up I die a little

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