https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399375
--- Comment #31 from Tyson Tan <tyson...@mail.com> --- Now please let me share a story about how Microsoft handles a similar situation: As you all know, a keyboard has only western letters on it. So how do the non-western language speakers input their native languages? They use applets called the Input Methods (IME) under Windows. At first, (Windows 95/97/2000/XP/7) Microsoft used these hotkeys to handle the IME related businesses: [Ctrl+Shift] Toggle IME > Next IME of the same language [Alt+Shift] Next language At that time, however, the Ctrl/Shift/Alt hotkey scheme has already become a norm across almost every professional applications out there. This arrangement understandably caused huge problem. For example, in Photoshop, you need to press both the modifiers and letters all the time for shortcuts. But when a combination of [Ctrl+Shift] or [Alt+Shift] is pressed, it not only rendered that PS's shortcuts useless, but also toggle the IME, so now the letter only shortcuts wouldn't work either. The workaround at that time was to turn off IME shortcuts completely and use mouse clicks to switch. It was a huge trade-off and grief impact of productivity. It was understandable because Asian market at that time was an after-thought for Microsoft so the sloppy IME shortcuts was probably a dirty patch-on. Now you may say, this problem mainly affects only the East-Asians who use professional applications, a very small portion of their user. Those user should ask their applications to change, not Windows itself. But Microsft changed it. Starting from Windows 8, this is how they do the same thing: [Win+Space] Toggle IME > Switch between IMEs. IMEs of different languages are now grouped together, so there is no need to switch between languages anymore. The moral of the story: 1) Even something as large as Microsoft can change; 2) They changed from [Ctrl/Shift/Alt] to [Super/Meta]; 3) They changed an old way they had been used for more than a decade; 4) They changed for a very specific minority, the professional users from roughly only 3 countries; 5) When a hotkey is being used for work, for operating a tool for a professional, without which the work can't be done, it has the right to be respected; P.S. Do you remember the sorts of BlackBerry? Their physical keyboards on their smartphone surely was the standard of the past when the smartphone market was so small compared to today's. And sure, physical keyboards have their advantages. Now, remember how they reacted when iPhone was released? And where are those companies now? Beware of living in an echo-chamber, where only similar voice of yours can be heard. That's said, my words doesn't matter if you are perfectly comfortable with living in an extremely narrow niche. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
