[Lazarus] Lazarus shortcuts conflict with windows shortcuts

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:10:26 +0200
Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14-8-2012 20:52, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> SCNR...
> Perhaps some tool called, say lazset*), could be created and used to
> set/change key shortcuts, e.g.:
> 
> lazset --primary-config-path=c:\example\whatever
> --set="ContextSensitiveHelpKey=ShiftF1"
> 
> or e.g.
> lazset --primary-config-path=c:\example\whatever
> --set="ContextSensitiveHelpKey="
> or
> lazset --primary-config-path=c:\example\whatever
> --delete="ContextSensitiveHelpKey"
> 
> ... which would use the existing IDE code (same way lazbuild does) and
> that could be automated in e.g. a batch file or even an installer (e.g.
> only called when KDE is detected/selected).
> 
> A school, company, organization or user could maintain scripts that
> change these settings after each new install/upgrade, these scripts
> could be made available in the CCR or Lazarus repository, on the forum,
> etc...

Changing the defaults for schools, pools, multi user environments is
already possible. Just put your editoroptions.xml into the secondary
config directory.


Mattias