On 14.03.12 14:18:47, Valentin wrote: > I posted this question just in the kde bugtracke, but maybe here it's > better to discuss. > > I think, that only a few people really use the keyboard accelerators > but they are enabled by default.
Do you have data to back up that statement? Most people around me use accelerators ocassionally, though they prefer shorrcuts. I think wether or not they're used could depend on the target audience quite a lot. > Why not show them only when needed? Because that could make it harder for beginners to even realize that there is the concept of accelerators. I can imagine someone looking at a menu and wondering what the highlighted letters are for. If he first needs to press and hold a key to see the highlighting that would seem to make it harder to discoverthis concept. > There is a nice select box in the KDE oxygen settings. > > There are 3 options > - Allways show > - Allways hide > - Show when needed > > The default setting is "Allways show". I think, we should make "Show > when needed" default because it looks better. This part should be discussed with our artists and maybe usability team. > Also Windows and GNOME > are not showing keyboard accelerators by default. Other desktop systems doing this does not necessarily mean its a good thing for KDE too. Andreas >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
