Bug 430693

Summary:	deadkeys cannot be set as keyboard shortcuts
Product:	[Applications] krita	Reporter:	Manga Tengu <mangatengu>
Component:	Shortcuts and Canvas Input Settings	Assignee:	Krita Bugs <krita-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ghevan, griffinvalley, halla
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.4.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	macOS (DMG)
OS:	macOS
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Manga Tengu 2020-12-22 03:01:05 UTC

I have a few keys that can't be assigned. 
I'm on a MacBook pro 2018 15' with a french - france azerty keyboard.
The keys not assignable are `, ^, ¨, the common factor is all those keys expect another key to put an accent on it so they are only generated after you type the next letter. for example â is written by hitting ^ first (which will wait) and then a so the os understands to put the accent on the a.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. customize a shortcut with an accent key working in 2 steps

OBSERVED RESULT
None is still the value affected

EXPECTED RESULT
something cool

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
macOS: big sur

Comment 1 vanyossi 2020-12-24 21:38:22 UTC

I can confirm this is an issue on any deadkey.

Comment 2 Halla Rempt 2020-12-24 22:52:17 UTC

I'm not sure it's actually possible to implement support for this, unless we go a whole lot lower down the stack. Qt doesn't send a keypress event until the dead key has been combined with another letter, as far as I can tell.

Comment 3 vanyossi 2020-12-25 02:57:37 UTC

I think this is a bug the user can find a good quickaround by choosing another key, OR changing keyboard layouts for krita (I do this with some applications, as this is a common problem).

Shall we close it?

Comment 4 wolthera 2021-09-08 09:02:42 UTC

I can reproduce this issue, but I am also going to set it to wishlist, as it would require a massive undertaking to implement this at all. For me, altgr+key does work, but '``' does not, and kde's shortcut handler can't even register the keystrokes reliably.