Am Sonntag, 25. Oktober 2009 10:51:27 schrieb Andrea Diamantini: > On Sunday 25 October 2009 09:45:08 Ronny Scholz wrote: > > I understand your opinions and sonetimes also use F11. > > > > But to keep consistency we shouldn't redefine shortcuts per default even > > if they are the same. > > It is about synchrony. If the user or the distribution changes the global > > shortcut rekonq is not affected. Thats not good in my opinion. If the > > user really wants F11 he/she may enable this via rekonqs shortcuts editor > > (once it is working :D), but then he/she is responsible for breaking the > > consistency. This is an important difference to me, because then the user > > knows what is going on in the system and why. > > I think you missed the point here. Who decides here is not "dontknowwhat" > distribution, it's the KDE project. And there it has been decided for CTRL > + SHIFT + F shortcut. > So all KDE applications should provide that shortcut. Ok, if this is a KDE decision it is easier for us. Then there is one argument less for the synchrony idea.
> We added the F11 shortcut that comes from browser experience. That's all. > If an user add a "Global" shortcut (in this case, a KWin one) he has 3 > shortcuts to start a feature. > It's true he cannot see the "global" shortcut in rekonq shortcut settings. > But that's because that shortcut is not a rekonq settings. No way to show > it, also setting no app shortcuts. If this is possible this discussion would be solved. But I cannot reproduce it. I've set Ctrl+# as global secondary shortcut for fullscreen (just to test it) but it does not work in rekonq. It seems like the global shortcuts are overwritten by the local ones, not extended. > > > And for the backend thing: who cares about the backend when dealing with > > shortcuts? This is a GUI thing and the GUI should hide the backend from > > the user (besides, Kaffeine uses Phonon "backend"). But I don't want to > > step deeply into this discussion. I just wanted to say that other > > applications are also not considering the globals and we can do better. > > Yes, sure. I was just saying that F shortcut comes from MPlayer setting and > it becomed a "default" one for video player, in the same way F11 becomes > the "default" one for browsers. > I'm used to use F shortcut with players and F11 shortcut for browsers and I > think all users will complain if one of these fails. > That is true. And it is why I started this discussion about what solution is the best. If you all prefer the current behaviour we should keep it. _______________________________________________ rekonq mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/rekonq
