Karl Eichwalder wrote:
Timwi timwi@gmx.net writes:
I'm sure you realise that if we did this, then other people would complain about other shortcuts, and very quickly we would have no letters left.
that's it. it is plain wrong to steal users' shortcuts. By default, please disable this bug... feature. I don't know what Alt-A now does but it surely does not "Select All" any longer :-(
"Select All" is Ctrl+A, not Alt+A, and is not overridable with website shortcuts, nor is any other direct keyboard shortcut (at least in Firefox), because they all involve Ctrl.
The only things that are interfered with are the menus. I figure that this is a minor issue. Keyboard freaks tend to use direct keyboard shortcuts instead of going through the menus (e.g. "Ctrl+D" instead of "Alt+B, A"), while non-keyboard freaks tend to use the mouse anyway. Those that really really insist on using the menus through the keyboard can still use the workaround I described (press Alt and release it, then press B). It's not even any more key presses; it's only a matter of getting used to it.
What can I do to get rid of them?
I think it is possible with JavaScript (using [[User:Yourusername/monobook.js]]), but I'm not an expert at this. Someone who is should probably reply and explain it.
Timwi