Bug 357418

Summary:	It is messing with the shortcuts
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-ki18n	Reporter:	Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli <tiposchi>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Chusslove Illich <caslav.ilic>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	kdelibs-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	example of accelerators being broken by kde

Description Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli 2016-01-02 11:01:08 UTC

KDE randomly adds shortcuts, disregarding the ones that are already present in the UI, creating conflicts that end up making shortcuts useless.

For example, see the attached .ui file.

I am writing an application where the user might need to input some odd symbols, and some buttons are available to insert the symbol within the text.
Said buttons have shortcuts in the form of Alt+Key, but KDE adds random Alt+Key shortcuts all over the place, removing the advantage of having shortcuts in the first place.

A workaround is to use
[Development]
AutoCheckAccelerators=false

The bug has been encountered several times by several people:
https://www.google.it/search?q=AutoCheckAccelerators

but was never seriously considered, besides providing the workaround.

I believe that adding accelerators is a good idea, but adding duplicated ones is a very shitty idea.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli 2016-01-02 11:01:32 UTC

Created attachment 96404 [details]
example of accelerators being broken by kde

Comment 2 Chusslove Illich 2016-01-02 13:05:44 UTC

I wonder why is this issue associated with Ki18n? The only function dealing with accelerator markers is removeAcceleratorMarker, they are nowhere added. Maybe some other framework using this function, like KXmlGui?

Comment 3 Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli 2016-01-02 23:23:18 UTC

Well I don't know much of KDE internals, but I reported it on this component because of previous bugs, even though I opened a new one to make it clear that the issue is rather generic and not limited to some specific software.

It might very well be the case that I reported it against the wrong component, in which case I would appreciate assistance in moving this to the correct part of KDE.

The problem does exist and is reproducible easily by previewing the .ui file in the Qt designer.

Comment 4 Chusslove Illich 2016-01-10 22:20:07 UTC

I looked a bit through the history of the code that considers AutoCheckAccelerators, which is in KXmlGui, and there true is the default value since forever. There were some problems caused by this over the years, with short-lasting commits to make false default until these problems would be fixed elsewhere, and then true would be put back as default. I don't have an idea what a proper solution would be in this case. So I'll close this bug as duplicate of that other one, and reassign the other one to KXmlGui.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 337491 ***