Bug 190412

Summary:	ctrl+w shortcut not working
Product:	[Unmaintained] khotkeys	Reporter:	Ruchir Brahmbhatt <ruchir.brahmbhatt>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Michael Jansen <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	andrew.i.coles, tibirna
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Unspecified
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Description Ruchir Brahmbhatt 2009-04-23 09:31:28 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

After installing kde4 from trunk, I noticed that shortcut ctrl+w was not working in firefox to close the tab. After detailed investigation, I found that same is not working in konversation and dolphin also. I changed shortcut to close tabs from ctrl+w to ctrl+shift+t in dolphin and that worked. I wonder how this particular shortcut doesn't work. There may be other such cases.

Comment 1 Michael Jansen 2009-04-24 00:37:01 UTC

> kcmshell4 keys

Got to the khotkeys component and remove ctrl-w from the "Remap CTRL+W to ..."  shortcut. This is the result of me enabling the loading of the already present examples without considering the implications.

Comment 2 Ruchir Brahmbhatt 2009-04-24 06:46:05 UTC

That was a nice quick workaround. Following those steps makes it working again.
Thanks!

Comment 3 Andrew Coles 2009-05-04 00:12:55 UTC

Michael - any chance of having this sorted, rather than the user having to fix it with each install?  KDE 4.3 is coming up, and we don't want it to be 'the release where Ctrl+W was pooched'.

Comment 4 Cristian Tibirna 2009-05-09 17:13:50 UTC

Ctrl-key are traditionally application level shortcuts. Using one of these at global level is a Really Bad Idea (TM). This use of Ctrl-W also intereferes with (X)Emacs' "Save As..." shortcut (Ctrl-X Ctrl-W).

Please consider fixing Qt Designer (by adding a full key shortcuts configuration tool -- this app is fully open source now!) instead of blocking Ctrl-W at global level.

Thanks!

Comment 5 Andrew Coles 2009-05-09 18:18:39 UTC

SVN commit 965731 by coles:

Removed the global shortcut, enabled by default, that leads to the Ctrl+W shortcut being disabled system-wide.

BUG: 190412



 M  +0 -157    kde32b1.khotkeys  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=965731

Comment 6 Michael Jansen 2009-05-18 17:41:34 UTC

I reverted Andrew Coles fix because it didn't fix the problem. khotkeys still grabbed shortcuts for other inactive hotkeys. ctrl-alt-t for example.

See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193085

As i wrote in that bug the problem is fixed in trunk.