Bug 165938

Summary:	Select all (ctrl-a) doesn't work in plasmoid
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Thomas Zander <zander>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gabriello.ramirez, mail
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Thomas Zander 2008-07-07 13:28:33 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)

To reproduce;

Insert a sticky-note plasmoid.
Type some text
Make sure your focus is in the sticky-note and press 'ctrl-a'  Which is select-all.

What happens;  the plasma-wide dialog to add a plasmoid shows up.
What I expected to happen; the 'select all' action to be triggered.

Important observations; 
* if you already have the 'Add widgets' dialog open and again place your caret in the sticky-note app then press ctrl-a all the items in the add widgets dialog will be selected.
* If you right click on the Notes plasmoid you will see that there is indeed a select-all action and that its shortcut is indeed ctrl-a ;)

Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-07-07 22:46:45 UTC

welcome to the insane world of focus on QGraphicsView. there are a number of issues that remain, hopefully more (all? =) of them will be sorted in Qt 4.5.

i'm 95% sure this is due to these upstream issues, but don't have time to verify right now; i'll leave this one open until someone (e.g. me) confirms (or not). if someone can track it back to a Qt issue, we can close it here.

Comment 2 Christoph Burgmer 2008-08-02 12:47:55 UTC

Can you "move" this report to widget-misc? I was going to file the same bug there. Or what's the best place for it?

Comment 3 Gabriel Ramirez 2008-10-09 05:32:57 UTC

this bug still exists in kde 4.1.1 with rpms from fedora 9, I think which the problem is the shorcut choosen to open the plasmoid dialog and not the focus in QgraphicView, because ctrl-a historically is a shortcut to select things (objects) in a window (text, icons, objects depending the apllication), plasma is a new way to program a graphic interface in kde, maybe is better to select new shorcuts for plasma actions instead of getting old ones because that confuse some users.

Comment 4 Sebastian Sauer 2008-12-16 04:13:23 UTC

In the Containment::init() method in kdelibs/plasma/containment.cpp we register following shortcuts;
* ctrl+a (conflicts with select all)
* ctrl+n
* ctrl+p (conflicts with paste)
* ctrl+l
* QKeySequence::ZoomIn
* ctrl+=
* QKeySequence::ZoomOut)
* ctrl+shift+a

Comment 5 Sebastian Sauer 2008-12-16 05:36:13 UTC

eh, my fault. ctrl+p doesn't conflicts with paste cause that's ctrl+v :-/
anyway, it's fixed now with r897447. Thanks for the feedback!