On Monday 17 March 2008, Michael Jansen wrote:

I somewhat support this for applications (not the desktop/workspace components). For example it annoyed me a lot that recently CTRL-SHIFT-I does not un-indent in Katepart apps. After a while I looked at the global shortcuts and saw it is used by some app (Kopete, IIRC). This is the annoying behavior of the global shortcuts. If the app would have offer me to accept its shortcuts or not on the first run, I may have found much earlier what's the problem. The same would have happened if instead of silently failing in Katepart, I would get a "conflicting shortcuts" dialog, so I can choose if I want to use that shortcut as a global one or as Katepart specific. Showing such an "opt-in" dialog should work for apps that are not accessible in other ways, but global shortcuts. Showing the "conflict" dialogs helps if you accepted the shortcuts, or start to use a new app which has local shortcuts already taken up by global ones.

Andras

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