[Development] QKeySequenceEdit questions

[Laszlo Papp]

>
> This is also a questionable decision for a keyboard shortcut edit
> actually. Quite often, shortcut editors would terminate the shortcut after
> you entered it or with return if they do not want to allow that shortcut. I
> have actually never seen a shortcut edit which terminates by some
> artificial time. Frankly, once you type in a shortcut, it is clear that you
> want that. No need to wait. And even if you had to wait, there should be a
> backdoor not to annoyingly wait, like return.
>
> This is why I am claiming that this is retrofitting, not a clean solution.
>
> The bottom line: the ideal and current shortcut editor behaviour in most
> apps that I have seen is not based on a timer. So, even if we add a
> property, the timer still gets in the ideal way, although it will be better
> than what we have now. It will not still be ideal though.
>

This could probably be mitigated by disabling the timer when the
maxKeyCount equals to one. I think that would be a fair decision to make.
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