Bug 52191 - kate keybindings usability is poor
Summary: kate keybindings usability is poor
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: kate
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWrite Developers
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Keywords:
: 115872 160023 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2002-12-22 15:53 UTC by Tobias Hunger
Modified: 2009-08-07 21:56 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Tobias Hunger 2002-12-22 15:53:21 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.0.99)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

Setting up the keybindings in use for Kate is extremly confusing. First there are 'global keybindings' set via the controllcenter (or however you call that application). Then tehre's Settings->Configure Shortcuts finally there's Settings->Configure Kate->Editor->Shortcuts. Some of those even have several 'subgroups' of keybindings.

How am I supposed to find the keybinding I need to change in all that mess? If I know the key that triggers the action I want, how can I change it? There's no way to search for a key that I could see. I was trying to change "Move to beginning of line" from "Home" to emacs-style "CTRL-A". Took bathering a couple of people in #kde-users to figure out how to do that;-)

Kate is a extrem example IMHO. Other KDE apps feature two keysettings dialogs (the global one and a application specific), kate has even one more. Two is allready too much IMHO.

Regards,
Tobias
Comment 1 Tom Collins 2003-02-16 05:25:44 UTC 
Suggestion: move all of the keybindings to Settings->Configure Shortcuts 
to be more consistent with other KDE apps.
Comment 2 Alan Horkan 2005-08-27 22:03:14 UTC 
fixed typo in summary
s/useability/usability
Comment 3 FiNeX 2007-12-11 15:04:50 UTC 
Same issue in the new Kate for KDE4. Shortcuts should be configurable only from one dialog, such other kde apps.
Comment 4 Thomas Friedrichsmeier 2007-12-12 16:06:00 UTC 
*** Bug 115872 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Dotan Cohen 2008-07-12 10:53:27 UTC 
*** Bug 160023 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 FiNeX 2009-08-07 21:56:09 UTC 
Kate on KDE trunk have only one shortcut editor. It has been fixed :)