Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.0) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux On a lot of keyboard-layouts / is not the best shortcut for "find as you type". I know about e.g. spanish, hungarian, german, italian and portuguese keyboard layout that have to press SHIFT+x, which does not really save anything compared to CTRL+F. One might argue that one could use the keypad's button, yet as there are more and more laptops, there are less and less keypads. But even without the latter, it does not hurt anyone if "." as a shortcut is added, but certainly benefit users of the keyboard-layouts mentioned above. I think that "." is almost always at the same place on the keyboard and right next to the "original"-key used on american keyboard-layouts. Opera already uses it for "find as you type". If there are any other applications within KDE that also use "/" only, please add them to the bug in order for them to add "." too.
It's shifted in the French keyboard. So there's no clear way of using a non-shifted shortcut. But, as you're not advocating *changing*, but adding a secondary, I don't see the harm. Then again, the numbers are shifted in the French keyboard, so French users are used to Shift or using the numeric keypad anyways...