[Lazarus] Lazarus shortcuts conflict with windows shortcuts

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> On 14 August 2012 17:49, Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Well, the only 'elegant' solution I can think of is to avoid Ctrl+Alt combos
>> at all. There will always be unavoidable conficts with other software which
>> uses system wide hotkeys but at least the OS shortcuts should be respected.
>
>
> In that case Ctrl should be avoided too, because Ctrl is often used in
> KDE & Gnome shortcuts.... See how rediculous this is becoming! As
> Mattias said, there is NO easy solution. Lazarus DOES allow you to
> redefine shortcuts, so does your OS. So YOU decided what is more
> important to you - the OS shortcut or the Lazarus one, then simply
> undefine the others.
>
> Lazarus developers under KDE & Gnome have been doing this for years.
> The Ctrl+F<n> keys are often used to change virtual desktops, so we
> simply disable those in KDE & Gnome, because the Lazarus IDE ones are
> more important to us. Don't be lazy.

I agree with Graeme. Lazarus offers you the option, please use it.

It's simply not possible to find a set of shortcuts that is guaranteed 
to work on all systems. I think that internal consistency of lazarus is 
more important.

Michael.