multimedia keys vs. keyboard shortcuts (was: Re: rawhide and cooker compared)

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Fri Feb 22 14:02:09 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 04:23 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Bastien Nocera <bnocera <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > You might want to voice your opinion there. I find this a much better
> > idea in terms of UI than allowing binding the same action to 2 keys
> > (which is still possible using the custom keybindings[1]).
> 
> Yet secondary shortcuts just work in KDE, and are easily settable through the 
> kcontrol (KDE 3) or systemsettings (KDE 4) GUI.

What does that mean? It's easy to support multiple keyboard shortcuts in
the backend, it's just hard to get right in the UI.

I guess the "Yet" means that KDE managed to make it look good. I
seriously doubt that, but I'm willing to take screenshots as a proof
they managed it.




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