Bug 141109

Summary:	keyboard layout switch shortcut cannot be set to alt-shift
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Reza Bakhshi <mmfrezabakhshi>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Daniel Molkentin <molkentin>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Reza Bakhshi 2007-02-03 07:02:59 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

Hi there,
Thanks for great work in KDE development. I've had a problem with keyboard layout switching in KDE since 3.4 when Started using kde:
It did not understand alt-shift as a standalone keyboard key combination, it waits for another key to be pressed with them (e.g. alt-shift-K), this will result in being unable to assign ALT-SHIFT for layout switch, in Kcontrol. in KDE 3.5.5 (OpenSUSE 10.2) when you press alt-shift and keep it for a while it will interpret it as alt-ISO-LAYOUT-NEXT or ALT-ISO-LAYOUT-PREVIOUS (or something like) which I don't know whether it is correct translation of key combination or not, BUT STILL IT DOES NOT WORK EITHER!
finally, as other older versions I set short cut to CTRL-MENU, but I really like it to be ALT-SHIFT.

thank you :)

Comment 1 Stephen Leaf 2007-02-04 15:39:30 UTC

This is intentional as it is considered to be a poor shortcut.
consider this, what happens when you have a shortcut like alt+shift+a ? If you type in alt+shift and then change your mind suddenly your keyboard changes. you may or may not realize it, lets say you don't and go to do another shortcut that ends up doing something completely different from what you meant, (unlikely but for the sake of an example) you wanted to save, but instead you do close without save.

Comment 2 Stefan Monov 2007-02-05 18:43:50 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59027 ***