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

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Axel =?iso-8859-1?q?D=F6rfler ?= wrote:

>
> 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 the triggers aren't active before the menu is open, are they?

> 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...

> 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.

CU, Ingo

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