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

[Callum Lerwick]

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 14:02 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 04:23 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > 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.

What's the problem? Various games have been doing this since before KDE
was a twinkle in Matthias Ettrich's eye.

For an example of how not to do it, maybe check out MAME...
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