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

Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently one can define shortcuts for menu items and I don't see a
> reason, why it shouldn't be possible to set ones for the items 
> controlling
> the menus. But apparently no BeOS app programmer does and personally 
> I'm
> very thankful for that. I really hate KDE for shadowing my shortcut
> settings with (automatically generated=3F) menu shortcuts (e.g. Alt-O 
> for
> the `Options' menu shadows what I've defined for the `Open' action).

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 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. I think the only solution 
would be to ignore the extra qualifiers when resolving the shortcut, 
but that could cause other problems as well :/

Adios...
   Axel.

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