On Monday 17 March 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote:

Eh, what world do you live in? ;)

We (or at least I) start apps with an expectation that they can do or help us to do defined tasks, not because we have a world of time to spend learning new stuff. The manual is consulted if we can't figure out how to use the app to achieve our goals.

When kopete 'stole' CTRL + SHIFT + I, we got several bugs reported for Kate. No reporter consulted the Kopete manual, they looked in Kates, just to find that that shortcut indeed should activate the unindent action.

Do you have ktip enabled? I don't, it's usually the first thing I disable if an application provides it. I can't think of anybody I know who tends to keep those enabled. I may launch the tip dialog (help->tip of the day) if I want to learn a few things about an application, but again, I do not think I would find the right one when an action in one app fails reacting to a shortcut due to another app 'stealing' it.

I believe somthing at kdelibs level that would detect and warn about and offer to solve conflicts would be cool. It's just a question of designing it so well that it does not feel too intrusive to the user.

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