multimedia keys vs. keyboard shortcuts (was: Re: rawhide and cooker compared)

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:02 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 04:23 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Bastien Nocera <bnocera <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > > You might want to voice your opinion there. I find this a much better
> > > idea in terms of UI than allowing binding the same action to 2 keys
> > > (which is still possible using the custom keybindings[1]).
> > 
> > Yet secondary shortcuts just work in KDE, and are easily settable through the 
> > kcontrol (KDE 3) or systemsettings (KDE 4) GUI.
> 
> What does that mean? It's easy to support multiple keyboard shortcuts in
> the backend, it's just hard to get right in the UI.
> 
> I guess the "Yet" means that KDE managed to make it look good. I
> seriously doubt that, but I'm willing to take screenshots as a proof
> they managed it.
> 

Its just that Kevin takes any occasion he can to inject some kde
advertisements into unrelated threads. Had we discussed gdm, he would
have said that it is easy to uninstall gdm and install kdm instead...