Bug 165542

Summary: Can't assign shortcuts to "Popup Menu" key
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kxmlgui Reporter: juanjux
Component: generalAssignee: Michael Jansen <kde>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: bugs, cg, coates, gordon.wells, johanssongreppet, kde, l.gambetta, l.lunak, rhansen, simonandric5, spamfuckers, thomas.luebking
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mandriva RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: http://commits.kde.org/kxmlgui/3b690ae01b31faaddaa38ca6ef5425ef68f7546c Version Fixed In: 5.16
Sentry Crash Report:

Description juanjux 2008-07-01 23:26:07 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.83)
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs

If a try to assign a shortcut to the "popup menu" key, the one that is next to AltGr and Control on most keyboards, I can't do it because... a menu popups :-) on the assign key dialog, even when you've clicked on the button to capture a keypress

I'm used to use that key for the "expose" alike effect on beryl so now that I've switched to KDE4 I would like to have the same shortcut.
Comment 1 Lubos Lunak 2008-07-02 14:28:40 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158913 ***
Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2008-07-04 14:22:58 UTC 
.
Comment 3 Andreas Hartmetz 2008-07-04 14:27:03 UTC 
158913 was really two bugs in one and the main bug has been closed. Reopening because the bug reported here is still present.
Comment 4 Raphael Kubo da Costa 2008-07-08 09:18:36 UTC 
Should not this be a bug instead of a wish?
Comment 5 Sergio Martins 2008-10-24 19:08:03 UTC 
One workaround is to edit .kde4/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc (while kde is not running) and add the Menu key where needed
Comment 6 Pawel Pabian 2009-04-02 02:02:42 UTC 
I also don't like hardcoded Menu key without abilty to reassign.

1. Menu key is not working in many KDE apps. Try to select message in KMail and press Menu key - nothing will happen. Same when you select Amarok track. It doesn't work exactly as RMB. And as a user I'll just click RMB instead of trying to memorize where Menu key works and where not.

2. In multi-panel apps (Kontact, KDevelop, Amarok, editors) it's not obvious which element has focus, and so no one is using Menu key.

Because of those reasons many KDE 3.x users were reassigning this key, and ability to reassign should be restored.
Comment 7 Parker Coates 2010-09-19 18:32:25 UTC 
I think it's reasonable to call this a bug and not a wish considering that it is a regression from KDE3.
Comment 8 Christoph Feck 2011-10-18 19:49:20 UTC 
*** Bug 284380 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Christoph Feck 2011-12-21 22:35:01 UTC 
*** Bug 237614 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Christoph Feck 2012-06-14 20:43:05 UTC 
*** Bug 301905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Thomas Lübking 2015-10-16 13:30:12 UTC 
*** Bug 353916 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Thomas Lübking 2015-10-16 13:31:54 UTC 
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125658/
Comment 13 Thomas Lübking 2015-10-19 19:21:42 UTC 
Git commit 3b690ae01b31faaddaa38ca6ef5425ef68f7546c by Thomas Lübking.
Committed on 19/10/2015 at 19:20.
Pushed by luebking into branch 'master'.

Do not treat the context menu button as modifier

It's not and not treated as such by Qt either.
In addition suck context events while recording
(so it doesn't activate, rather cosmetic)
FIXED-IN: 5.16
REVIEW: 125658
CHANGELOG: Allow to bind the contextmenu key (lower right) to shortcuts

M  +6    -1    src/kkeysequencewidget.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kxmlgui/3b690ae01b31faaddaa38ca6ef5425ef68f7546c