On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Rick Stockton < rickstock...@reno-computerhelp.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 12 May 2012 18:36:42 Mark wrote: > > > / As for making a "HIG" keyboard standard list. A very good starting > > point is: > />/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts />/ > />/ Every single line where the same key combination is used in both: > Windows, > />/ Mac, KDE en GNOME can be considered as de-facto standard key imho. > Though > />/ the list has to be viewed with care since the very first item "Activate > />/ current application's Menu bar" is already wrong for KDE. It's not just > />/ ALT. It's ALT + M iirc. > > Here's our online reference for KDE keyboard shortcut HIG: > /http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Keyboard_Shortcuts > > Ctrl-M toggles the visibility of the bar /(without selecting it). Some KDE > Applications implement this (e.g. Gwenview, Dolphin), but others do not > (e.g., KDevelop). None of these 3 applications provide "Focus to the Menu > Bar" via F10, as documented in our guidelines. Dolphin uses that key to > create a new item, and the other two seem to completely ignore the key > event. > > I'll recheck the Qt "StandardKey" table and documentation later tonight , > maybe scribble some fixes. But it looks like Wikipedia is wrong about "Alt > + M" on KDE. > BTW, Here are some other references for keyboard shortcuts: > > > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/applehiguidelines/KeyboardShortcuts/KeyboardShortcuts.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002725-SW2 > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb545461.aspx > > http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.0/input-keyboard.html.en#standard-shortcuts > > />/ While looking at that wiki list i'm quickly realizing that we're never > />/ going to get a standard keyboard + mouse mapping for generic keys > across > />/ all major desktop environments. > > That's because no such conventions exist- yet. We'll be the first to > create them. It's possible that the GNOME people will cooporate with us, > and share certain values, if we let them know what we came up with. (That > would be helpful, of course.) > > > _______________________________________________ > Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list > Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel > > For Ctrl + M, there was a technical reason why it wasn't just ctrl - like in windows - but i forgot the reason. If someone could explain the reasoning behind that?
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