Bug 311549

Summary:	terminal complains about ambigous shortcut "Shift+Ins" while normal text window doesn't
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Timo Cramer <timo.cramer>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor	CC:	a.samirh78, christoph, enrico.tagliavini, ilmari.lauhakangas, zhonb
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	16.04.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Timo Cramer 2012-12-12 01:37:22 UTC

I usually use Shift+Ins to paste text, but when I try it in the terminal window, an error message pops up: http://i.imgur.com/C1ysG.png
I looked everywhere, but there is no other assignment and in the normal text window I can paste successfully.

After disabling Shift+Ins globally in the system settings, pasting with Shift+Ins works in the terminal window, but, as expected, doesn't work anywhere else.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open Kate
2. copy text
3. open terminal window and click into it
4. press Shift+Ins
Actual Results:  
An error message pops up:
The key sequence 'Shift+Ins' is ambiguous. Use 'Configure Shortcuts' from the 'Settings' menu to solve the ambiguity.
No action will be triggered

Expected Results:  
paste the copied text

Comment 1 Buovjaga 2016-06-15 14:51:03 UTC

I confirm this.

Arch Linux 64-bit
Kate 16.04.2
KDE Frameworks 5.22.0
Qt 5.6.1
xcb wm

Comment 2 z 2017-10-09 03:33:34 UTC

This is also happening in Kate 17.04.2.

In addition to Shift+Ins, Ctrl+Shift+V also returns an ambiguous shortcut pop-up window.  These are pretty much universal paste shortcuts and none of them work in the Kate terminal emulator.  I'm surprised this has received zero attention in almost 5 years.

Comment 3 Ahmad Samir 2018-10-16 18:47:50 UTC

The terminal widget in Kate is provided by konsole kpart, so the shortcut conflicts you see here are between the ones defined in katepart and the ones konsole part.

Ctrl+Shift+V:
kate, switch to next input mode
konsole, paste

Shift+Ins:
kate: paste
konsole: paste

FTR, Konsole kpart doesn't support changing the default konosle shortcuts.

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2019-08-24 19:57:31 UTC

I think this can't be fixed by us.

Unfortunately shortcut conflicts between the different parts can happen.

There is there alternate CTRL-SHIFT-V variant that works.

WORSFORME might not the best resolution, but the others looked strange, too.