[interfacekit] Re: A little help... (2)

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Oh, yes, that would be really bad - at least the shortcuts must 
> > have
> > precedence over the automatically generated ones.
> > BeOS does it the same way, BTW (they are called "triggers" in the 
> > menu
> > preferences, for example).
> But the triggers aren't active before the menu is open, are they=3F

Oh yes, that's right - I see where you were getting at :-)

> > But while we're at it: the BeOS shortcuts have a major problem with
> > localization, because certain shortcuts cannot be used with other
> > keymaps since they use other qualifier keys. That's very annoying!
> > For example, Alt-[ won't work with the German keyboard, since they 
> > have
> > to press an extra "Alt-Gr" key to get it.
> My proposal would be to ban keyboards with German layout. ;-)
> Seriously, for programming and TeXing they're far inferior -- all 
> those
> often used characters must be accessed with this strange Alt-Gr
> modifier...

Hehe, it's not a big thing, you just need to adapt :-)

> > I think the only solution
> > would be to ignore the extra qualifiers when resolving the 
> > shortcut,
> > but that could cause other problems as well :/
> The only solution is to support localization for shortcuts. I hope 
> the YT
> guys think of that...
> For the meantime it helps, when the application in question allows 
> for
> customization of shortcuts.

True, the issue should still be resolved - if a keymap is not able to 
produce the specified key, it probably should be automatically changed 
to something else (another free shortcut, or the same with the 
qualifiers needed to produce it).

Adios...
   Axel.

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