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Here's the most silly request for KDE4 :-)
by Anonymous on Sunday 25/Feb/2007, @15:56

I'd really LOVE to have the underlined letter in every menu or button hidden by defalt and shown only when one presses the alt key, just like in Windows. It really gives a "cleaner" feeling.
Is it possible to do it without having to patch Qt?

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Re: Here's the most silly request for KDE4 :-)
by me on Sunday 25/Feb/2007, @17:55

I'd really LOVE to have the underlined letter in every menu
or button not hidden by defalt, just like in Windows 3.1/95/NT.
It really gives a more pleasant experience of deciding which
shortcut to press with only a glance.

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Re: Here's the most silly request for KDE4 :-)
by Jeff Parsons on Sunday 25/Feb/2007, @23:28

...and this is why the spirit of KDE is usually to allow these things to be customised whenever practicable. :)

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Re: Here's the most silly request for KDE4 :-)
by bkudria on Monday 26/Feb/2007, @00:33

Oh, great, another obscure configuration option to clutter the control center. :)

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Re: Here's the most silly request for KDE4 :-)
by Ben on Monday 26/Feb/2007, @02:33

The more the merryer. Please add both options to KDE4

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Re: Here's the most silly request for KDE4 :-)
by pete on Monday 26/Feb/2007, @02:39

I'd like the underline to appear when I press <ctrl><alt> 1 + f
Can I have that configuration option too please?

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Re: Here's the most silly request for KDE4 :-)
by onety-three on Monday 26/Feb/2007, @03:04

Alt is needed anyway for activating the accelerators, so that key is not chosen randomly.
Ridiculing this part of the proposal is not very constructive IMO.

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Re: Here's the most silly request for KDE4 :-)
by Re: Here's the most silly request for KDE4 :-) on Thursday 01/Mar/2007, @03:06

True, key is not chosen randomly. But for me, working 'faster'
is more important than 'having a _more_ clean look/feeling'.

First, an additional underlined letter is not excessively
distracting.

Secondly, I find it easier to perform:
look (eye) + alt (finger) + key (finger)

because fingers are used together in a quick successive way,
rather than:
alt (finger) + look (eye) + key (finger)

where I need to mentally "switch" from finger to eye, and to
finger again.

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Re: Here's the most silly request for KDE4 :-)
by Steve on Monday 26/Feb/2007, @02:48

(Score:5, Funny)

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Re: Here's the most silly request for KDE4 :-)
by André on Monday 26/Feb/2007, @04:45

Maybe we could introduce a configuration option to say if these configuration options are available? ;-)

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yeah, rite..
by eMPee on Tuesday 27/Feb/2007, @15:34

uber meta configuration setting options are da way to go, definite.

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Re: Here's the most silly request for KDE4 :-)
by onety-three on Monday 26/Feb/2007, @01:45

I'd love that as well. Is there a feature request to vote for in the bugtracker? Couldn't find any.

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