Bug 128851

Summary:	Cannot change application shortcut key using kmenuedit
Product:	[Applications] kmenuedit	Reporter:	semovrs
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	wstephenson
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
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Description semovrs 2006-06-08 20:29:08 UTC

Version:           kmenuedit version 0.7 (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc (GCC) 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8) 
OS:                Linux

I have my Firefox set up to start up when I hit Win+f. When I went through a major upgrade of Firefox (from 1.0.x to 1.5) I tried to start Firefox with the keyboard shortcut but a pop-up dialog box came up saying:
"Service '/usr/share/applications/mozillafirefox.desktop' is malformatted."
Then I went into kmenuedit (version 0.7) to check if the shortcut still shows up there for this application and it wasn't there. When I tried to set it up again I got this pop-up dialog box error:
"The key Win+F can not be used here because it is already in use."
So obviously kmenuedit still stores the shortcut somewhere but I can't reset it or use it after the firefox upgrade anymore.
I hope someone will help with this. This bug has been on there for quite some time (at least since I can remember - back to maybe KDE version 2) but this is the first time I am reporting it.
Roumen Semov.

Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2006-06-14 09:31:14 UTC

I'd say the sycoca database.

Comment 2 Thiago Macieira 2006-06-14 09:32:03 UTC

Which in turn makes me wonder: did your Firefox upgrade follow the menu specification?

Comment 3 semovrs 2006-06-14 18:42:59 UTC

Thiago,
Let's say Firefox didn't follow the menu specifications. Still, could we get kmenuedit to say something like 
"This shortcut is already taken by blah-blah. Do you want to reassign it to Firefox?".
This is how it works with kcontrol right now under Regional&Accessibility->Keyboard Shortcuts.
In this case my bug turns into a wish I guess.
Roumen.

Comment 4 semovrs 2006-08-04 05:25:33 UTC

For any of you who are waiting on that bug to get fixed - you can remove a "dead" keyboard shortcut by editing the ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc file - it's pretty straightforward.

Comment 5 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 16:03:31 UTC

The kglobalaccel service in KDE 4 takes care of duplicate hotkeys as described in #3.