Bug 441733

Summary:	Desktop Shortcuts in Right Click Menu Not Working
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Andres Betts <anditosan1000>
Component:	Containment	Assignee:	Marco Martin <notmart>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Other
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Andres Betts 2021-08-30 00:49:44 UTC

It appears that the key combinations

Alt D
Alt S
Alt E
E
T

Are not working currently. I checked with a couple of people in the VDG channel. I use Wayland, others were using X11 and the shortcuts were not working. In the case of the letters E and T, this collided with the desktop typing feature and was registered as a search term.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-08-30 16:30:27 UTC

They are working, they're just confusing as hell; See Bug 433841. We should probably replace them with more standard style shortcuts.

What you need to do is keep your finger on the modifier key and press both letters, one after the other. For example to trigger the action with the shortcut "Alt+D, Alt+A", you put your thumb on the Alt key, then press the D key, then--without taking your finger off the Alt key--press A.

For the one with the shortcut "Alt+D, A" you press Alt+D, then remove your finger from the Alt key, then press A.

Yes, it's ridiculous, I know. :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 433841 ***

Comment 2 Andres Betts 2021-09-08 15:58:09 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> They are working, they're just confusing as hell; See Bug 433841. We should
> probably replace them with more standard style shortcuts.
> 
> What you need to do is keep your finger on the modifier key and press both
> letters, one after the other. For example to trigger the action with the
> shortcut "Alt+D, Alt+A", you put your thumb on the Alt key, then press the D
> key, then--without taking your finger off the Alt key--press A.
> 
> For the one with the shortcut "Alt+D, A" you press Alt+D, then remove your
> finger from the Alt key, then press A.
> 
> Yes, it's ridiculous, I know. :)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 433841 ***

I totally agree that it's ridiculous. I think that is not standard key combo behavior. I wonder if we can make it work as it should?

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-09-08 16:02:51 UTC

Yes, we should just change these to standard non-chord shortcuts.