Bug 426920

SUMMARY
some small improvements for clarity and usability of the help texts would be nice to have.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. kcmshell5 khotkeys     
2. read the internal help text
3. be left wondering about the Macro-key functionality 
   on special keys and characters such as   € , @ , quotes , "SPACE-char"  and such. 
   Particularly after switching keyboard language-layout say from en-US to es-ES .


OBSERVED RESULT
not quite optimal help text, especially in translated German version.

EXPECTED RESULT
pretty good help texts.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:        KDE neon distro
KDE Plasma Version:      5.19.5
KDE Frameworks Version:  5.74.0
Qt Version:              5.15.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

developing for khotkeys is not very hard. So the source code can be played around with rather easily:
git clone https://invent.kde.org/plasma/khotkeys.git 

#install various developer libs in KDE neon such as:
sudo apt install libqt5x11extras5-dev

mkdir buildSubDir
cd    buildSubDir
cmake ..          # it usually builds smoothly, if all libs are present. look for missing packages to install via apt or synaptic in error messages. then:

qdbus org.kde.kded5 /kded org.kde.kded5.unloadModule khotkeys      #  true or false 
...../git/khotkeys/buildSubDir/bin/khotkeys_standalone"       &    #  launch the homemade khotkeys daemon
kcmshell5 khotkeys                                            &    #  GUI start

and bang, you run your modified khotkey. to mark your homemade Dämon, change the line

file:///home/......../git/khotkeys/libkhotkeysprivate/settings.cpp     line  485   or thereabouts  accordingly:

 qDebug() << "Version 2 File!    ##  My homemade khotkeys daemon is at play now. This line will be seen in the bash Konsole.  ## ";


also, one might want to look into coherently adapt  

LANG="en" /usr/bin/khelpcenter   help:/kcontrol/khotkeys/index.html 

to launch english khotkeys, use this:



LANG="en" kcmshell5        khotkeys
LANG="en" systemsettings5            # or find it via system settings.