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

[Kevin Kofler]

Bastien Nocera <bnocera <at> redhat.com> writes:
> 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.

Here's the new keyboard shortcut UI in KDE 4, which was touted as one of the 
usability improvements in KDE 4:
http://liquidat.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/shortcuts.png

This is for an application though. For global shortcuts, there's only 
the "Global" column; unfortunately, it looks like "Global alternate" is hidden 
in the UI with no way to enable it (the code is there, but the column is always 
hidden). :-( (In KDE 3, there was just "Primary" or "Alternate" for both global 
and application shortcuts, applications shortcuts had no "Global" version. So 
this looks like a regression to me.) But it can be a source of inspiration in 
any case.

        Kevin Kofler