Bug 358708

Summary:	Neo arrow keys do not work
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-ktexteditor	Reporter:	Sven Brauch <mail>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	kare.sars, robert
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Sven Brauch 2016-01-28 21:54:35 UTC

In kate (and KDevelop), the alternative arrow keys on the neo keyboard do not work. To reproduce:

setxkbmap -layout de neo
start kate
type some text
press the "<" key (german keyboard) and one of ESDF, that should move the cursor, but doesn't

I have been poking around quite a while for why this is broken, but couldn't figure it out. In QtCreator it works, so it's not a Qt bug per se. However, there are various other affected applications.

It seems like the shortcut is not accepted by the QAction (which has Qt::Key_Right) set as its shortcut) for whatever reason and then passed on (to the view etc) instead.

Any ideas where else to look?

Comment 1 Kåre Särs 2016-01-29 08:22:55 UTC

What version of Qt are you using? There was a bug in Qt that prevented the keypad keys from being recognized by QAction. Maybe it is a similar problem?

Comment 2 Sven Brauch 2016-01-29 10:03:21 UTC

It's still a bug in Qt, I did some more research yesterday. This one is different though. It's related to the 4th modifier key neo has which doesn't map to any of the native modifiers.

I have a patch (actually various patch ideas on how to fix it), I'll see if I can get any of them into Qt.

Tanks Kare, I'll close this, as it's not a bug in kate.

Comment 3 Robert Riemann 2016-04-06 08:26:14 UTC

Would you please provide the upstream bug report?