Bug 125248

Summary:	change default global shortcut for showing main window
Product:	[Unmaintained] kopete	Reporter:	madman <madman>
Component:	Main Application	Assignee:	Kopete Developers <kopete-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.11.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description madman 2006-04-09 21:37:13 UTC

Version:           0.11.1 (using KDE 3.5.2, Gentoo)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.5 (Gentoo 3.4.5-r1, ssp-3.4.5-1.0, pie-8.7.9)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.16

Kopete should not use Ctrl-Shift-S as a global shortcut, as it blocks "File->Save as" in many applications, including The GIMP.
Though this shortcut is configurable, it took me quite some time to get to know why I can't use "Save as" in gimp, and thought it's GIMP's fault.

I think using such a shorcut globally is quite dangerous, as many programs use it.

Solution - change the shortcut to something "neutral", probably Ctrl-Shift-W is not used by other programs

Comment 1 Mats Ahlgren 2007-05-24 06:05:36 UTC

No, don't change it to that. Ctrl-shift-W is another global shortcut used by gnome-terminal, which Kopete usurped, and is just as annoying. There's no way to disable it in Kopete, which is what I'm about to file another bug report for.

*All global shortcuts should be configurable.*

Comment 2 Will Stephenson 2007-11-14 16:43:49 UTC

Global shortcut collisions are detected in KDE 4.