[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #2499: [Keymap] hotkeys doesn't work with some keymaps
- From: "leavengood" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:37:34 -0000
#2499: [Keymap] hotkeys doesn't work with some keymaps
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Reporter: diver | Owner: axeld
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Kits/Interface Kit | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking: 6225
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by leavengood):
TL;DR:
We probably need to make shortcuts translatable.
Full version:
One of my interests is the Haiku menu shortcuts and making sure they work
right, and I have plans for introducing a ShortcutManager within the
Interface Kit to improve the code. Of course that alone won't solve this
issue, but while I was working on such a thing I could try to solve this
problem.
The Alt+ combo is one of the few US or UK keymap problems which is
affected by this (see #7428), but I know for other keymaps this is a much
bigger issue (hence this ticket.)
Feeling this is a complex issue with other people might have solved, I did
some searching and found the Qt documentation for QKeySequence:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qkeysequence.html
Of particular interest to this ticket is their discussion of keyboard
layout issues:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qkeysequence.html#keyboard-layout-
issues
So based on the above it seems that more or less the best way to handle
this is to translate the shortcuts. Of course as they discuss, the
translations may not always match the keyboard layout of all the speakers
of a particular language, but they are probably better than no shortcuts
working at all.
I also was very interested in their list of "standard shortcuts":
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qkeysequence.html#StandardKey-enum
While Qt's use of this is mainly because it runs on multiple OSes I have
thought that defining such a list in Haiku with a preference application
would allow for maximum customizing of shortcuts for all users. The above
list would be a good start should we decide to do that, but this is
definitely an R2 thing.
For now I think it would be nice to add preferences for some of the hard-
coded shortcuts for OS-level commands (the menu key opening the Deskbar
menu being the most egregious, defined within the keyboard device!!!)
But I digress: the question for this ticket is whether it would be
possible to add translated shortcuts without breaking the existing API.
Also the shortcut handling needs to be smarter so that it can figure out
that Cmd-Shift-= is the same as Cmd-+ on the US and UK keymap, with
similar smarts on other keymaps. But I think that is different than the
issue in this ticket.
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