On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > let me first point you to this image (kde 4.6.0) > : http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/5398/rightmousebuttondesktop.png > Oke, first one shortcut in that image. > I consider myself a experienced computer user in both windows and linux but > today i learned new shortcut things. > ALT + d, a (which is pressing ALT and type 'd' and 'a' while ALT is > pressed.. i didn't knew any combinations like that before) > Now lets consider what i wanted to do. What i wanted is opening the dialog > to add widgets to my desktop.. that's it. Now that shortcut isn't working > and i reported that here : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265527 but i > wonder what the rationale is behind ALT + d, a... > ALT, i can understand.. but D and A..? What does D mean? What does A mean? > The thing i want to do is "open the dialog to add widgets" and to describe > it simple i would say "add widgets" but i can't find any of that back in the > shortcut.. I would have expected something like this "ALT + a, w" for > "adding widgets" and "ALT + a, a" for adding activities... > One that is obvious is the desktop settings is ALT + d, ALT + s even though > ALT + d, s is also working so i suspect there is a bug in there. However, > it's not consistent with other setting shortcuts. You can see the desktop > settings as "properties" and in dolphin they use "ALT + Return" for that. > (what i find odd is that ALT + Return opens dolphin when not opened..) > so perhaps it's time to take a real good look at all our shortcuts and > define some generic application shortcuts that are the same in every > application that makes KDE SC. > Just a little brainstorm. > What do you think? > Regards, > Mark
Isn't that what "Standard Keyboard Shortcuts" is for? Applications can override these, of course, but they probably shouldn't by default. -Todd
