Bug 93239

Summary:	Ctrl+U doesn't work in textareas.
Product:	[Applications] konqueror	Reporter:	Dylan Griffiths <dylang>
Component:	khtml forms	Assignee:	Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	baif, faure
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Slackware
OS:	Linux
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Description Dylan Griffiths 2004-11-14 09:05:13 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    Slackware Packages
OS:                Linux

Ctrl+U in Konq does not work as the rest of my desktop: it will NOT clear a textfield and allow me to type new text.  When I grew up on Windows, I got used to using ctrl+a + backspace.  However, under X11, this has the unfortunate side effect of blanking out the text DnD clipboard.  When I discovered that X11 used the ctrl+u method of clearing text areas, I was very happy.

However, Konq will not honour this convention.  Why?  It's a reasonable default.

Comment 1 Sebastian Sauer 2005-03-21 05:46:26 UTC

Still reproducable with KDE 3.3.2. The problem is, that Ctrl+U is defined as shortcut for "View Document Source" and while it works e.g. on QLineEdit/KLineEdit it doesn't work on TextArea's.

Comment 2 kirun 2008-04-06 19:46:56 UTC

Seeing this in 4.0.3 ... remove the shortcut, and Ctrl+U will work in text boxes, but not text areas.

Comment 3 Baif 2008-08-27 09:46:30 UTC

View source shortcut conflict the shortcut -- "ctrl+u" of QLineEdit/KLineEdit.

My konqueror is from RawHide/Fedora 9.

[root@office162 ~]# rpm -qi kdebase
Name        : kdebase                      Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 4.1.0                             Vendor: Fedora Project
Release     : 1.fc10                        Build Date: Thu 24 Jul 2008 09:00:59 PM CST
Install Date: Wed 27 Aug 2008 02:00:00 AM CST      Build Host: x86-8
Group       : User Interface/Desktops       Source RPM: kdebase-4.1.0-1.fc10.src.rpm
Size        : 13213121                         License: GPLv2
Signature   : (none)
Packager    : Fedora Project
URL         : http://www.kde.org/
Summary     : K Desktop Environment 4 - Core Files
Description :
Core runtime requirements and applications for the K Desktop Environment 4.

Comment 4 David Faure 2009-01-29 02:11:41 UTC

The 4.1.0 bug with shortcut conflicts (comment #3) was unrelated (and fixed for 4.2.1).

The core of the issue, Ctrl+U not working in textareas, is completely independent from "View Document Source", it's just that the one-line QLineEdit implements Ctrl+U (on X11), while QTextEdit does not. I am not sure that implementing it in QTextEdit would be a good idea though -- given that it can (optionally) be used for rich text editing, and there Ctrl+U means underline...

It never occured to me to use Ctrl+U in a multi-line text widget; after all nobody expects it to work in a word processor either (pretty dangerous shortcut if it worked).

Finally, Ctrl+A + Del does not "blank out the text DnD clipboard" here - and it should not, since it's a keyboard-made selection and not a mouse selection. This in fact sounds like an old bug that might have been fixed since then. For this reason I'm closing this bug (it's both a WONTFIX for Ctrl+U and a WORKSFORME for Ctrl+A+Del), please reopen if you disagree.