Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.2) Installed from: SuSE RPMs There a lot of secret (from the user perspective) shortcuts and it would be a good thing to present them to the wider audience with ability to modify their settings. For example I was completely unaware of existence of such hardcoded, "internal" shortcut like ctrl+u (delete text from the beginning to cursor).
As you can see in the "Reserved Shortcuts" section here: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/keys/shortcuts.html Ctrl+U is reserved for backwards compatibility. Other than that, I don't think it's very useful, as users can just do Ctrl+Home then Del. Therefore, it doesn't ever need to be user modified. Any other shortcuts you'd like on prominent display?
> Ctrl+U is reserved for backwards compatibility. It is really sad -- year 2007 and we are talking about backward compability with nobody know what programs which nobody knows who really uses them. In year 2027, in KDE 5.2 ctrl+a will be still reserved? Gosh... Ctrl+C should be also reserved for this compability but it is not. And apparently there is no harm here :-) So I think -- let the user decide if she/he wants compability or wider range of shortcuts. > Other than that, I don't think it's very useful, as users can just do > Ctrl+Home then Del. Therefore, it doesn't ever need to be user modified. I don't understand your "therefore" -- therefore it is useful to be modified! So quite contrary conlusion. I would like ctrl+u to launch amarok. Modifying shortcut has exactly that point --> user does not want to get "default behaviour" but something else. Please, really consider reopening, because from my experience I used ctrl+u in ~1992. It was fifteen years ago, and since then I used quite modern environment. And again -- what harm is that I redefine ctrl+U in kate. It doesn't break xterm settings, right?
I am reopening this report since it is almost two weeks, and I think giving user chance to define in application X shortcut A when at the same time this shortcut in app Y means something _quite_ different is useful and valid. All in all user does not have to define such shortcut, but she/he can. Historical point of view does not make much sense -- fifteen years ago I used ctrl+a in text editor in different meaning than today. And I am perfectly ok with that.
I second this request and think that more keyboard shortcut actions should be made universal. It would be nice to have Konqueror, KWrite, and Konsole all respond to a single setting for keystrokes like Select All (Ctrl-A by default), or tab switching, or accessing preferences, or closing a tab/window/program. As common as tabs and windows are these days, why not make the interfaces consistent for heavy keyboard users?
Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug. Kcontrol has been replaced by System Settings in Plasma. Please give the latest version of that a try, and open a new bug in "systemsettings" if you continue to have an issue. Thank you!