Bug 176674 - konsole and kopete share same shortcut control + shift + w
Summary: konsole and kopete share same shortcut control + shift + w
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: kdelibs
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: shortcuts (show other bugs)
Version: 4.7
Platform: Ubuntu Unspecified
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdelibs bugs
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: 212022 279940 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2008-12-02 06:46 UTC by Jithin Emmanuel
Modified: 2012-05-25 15:56 UTC (History)
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Description Jithin Emmanuel 2008-12-02 06:46:02 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Close tab in konsole shortcut is not working because kopete also uses the same short cut . I noted before that close tab short cut was not working. I accidentally found this is the issue when I tried the short cut when I was offline and kopete popped up an errro.
Comment 1 FiNeX 2008-12-26 14:15:33 UTC 
Confirmed using current trunk too.
Comment 2 Robert Knight 2008-12-27 03:23:56 UTC 
Isn't this a bug in the shortcut system?  If there is a global shortcut and a window-specific shortcut bound to the same combination is the window-specific one supposed to take precedence?

In any case, Ctrl+D can be used to exit the shell in any terminal which also results in the tab being closed - this may not work if you have other interactive applications running in the terminal and you will need to repeat this if you have nested shells running.
Comment 3 FiNeX 2008-12-27 10:55:44 UTC 
You're right Robert: do you suggest to move this bug to kdelibs?
Comment 4 Lorenzo Villani 2009-03-17 20:53:00 UTC 
ping? this 'bug' is pretty annoying. Anyway I suggest the kopete developers to change the 'Set away/back' shortcut to something else or retrograde it to window-specific shortcut as a temporary solution.
Comment 5 FiNeX 2009-07-06 11:59:52 UTC 
currently even CTRL+SHIFT+S is used by both kopete and konsole
Comment 6 zeroping+kdebugs 2010-08-05 10:34:25 UTC 
It seems to me that there's bound to be overlap between applications' global shortcuts and per-application shortcuts. I'm not sure the Kopete guys could pick any default global shortcut without stepping on someone's toes.

And this is a major annoyance: it's a problem even if you never start up Kopete.

Maybe the right thing to do it to accept that there will be overlap, and change KShortcutsDialog (kdeui) to give some indication of this? My knee-jerk reaction was to check Settings -> Configure Shortcuts in Konsole, and I think that the dialog could grey-out the line for 'close tab' and show "overlaps X from application Y".

That way, we leave the decision to the user: do they want ctrl-shift-w to close tabs, or toggle their away/present state?
Comment 7 Jekyll Wu 2011-08-12 10:43:59 UTC 
*** Bug 279940 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Jekyll Wu 2011-08-12 11:26:49 UTC 
Assign it to kdelibs. See comment #2.
Comment 9 Jekyll Wu 2011-08-16 22:56:43 UTC 
*** Bug 212022 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***