[Interest] Contributor agreement rundown

Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com
Fri Apr 20 10:38:34 CEST 2012


On 20/04/12 11:28, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
>
>
> 20.04.2012, 02:13, "Nikos Chantziaras"<realnc at gmail.com>:
>> On 20/04/12 00:45, Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
>>
>>>>     It described in the human interface
>>>>   guidelines of each platform.  You can google them.
>>>   As I wrote already, even Apple seems to be not sure what the standard
>>>   should be on OS X: several applications by Apple use /different/
>>>   shortcuts!
>>>
>>>   I didn't bother to google it up, because I merely wanted to give a
>>>   plausible explanation why there is no such QKeySequence defined as
>>>   standard yet.
>>>   [...]
>>>   I meant that this is exactly an example that there seems to be no
>>>   common agreement what the shortcut for "fullscreen" should be, even on
>>>   the same platform.
>>
>> Every platform defines it in a clear manner.
>>
>> Apple says "Control+Command+F":
>> http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/userexperience/conceptual/applehiguidelines/KeyboardShortcuts/KeyboardShortcuts.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002725-SW2
>>
>> Microsoft says "F11 or Alt+Enter":
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb545461.aspx
>>
>> KDE says "F11 or Ctrl+Shift+F":
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/Keyboard_Shortcuts
>>
>> Gnome says "Ctrl+F11":
>> http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/3.0/input-keyboard.html.en#standard-shortcuts
>
> Nevertheless, these shortcuts are configurable, at least in KDE it's easy to change
> default fullscreen shortcut. Personally I change all Ctrl+Shift+something combinations
> for actions I use to something else because I'm used to Ctrl+Shift sequence for keyboard
> layout change, and X11 prevents use of other Ctrl+Shift+something shortcuts in this
> case.

You are confusing KWin's shortcut settings with application shortcut 
recommendations.  Also, the clash in your case is the reason why many 
shortcuts have alternatives (F11).




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