Bug 203601 - New menu items don't store shortcut key until second attempt
Summary: New menu items don't store shortcut key until second attempt
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: kmenuedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.8
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list
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Reported: 2009-08-12 20:05 UTC by IgnorantGuru
Modified: 2012-07-30 12:47 UTC (History)
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Description IgnorantGuru 2009-08-12 20:05:03 UTC
Version:           4:4.3.0-0ubuntu-1 (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

The following applies to traditional menu view - it may or may not exist with the "Kickoff Menu Style":

When adding a brand new item in menu editor and including a shortcut key, when the menu is saved the shortcut key is lost.  The next time menu editor is run, the shortcut key appears as "None".  Adding the shortcut key to the now existing entry and saving will then store it.

Note:  The new shortcut will be stored in the menu and in khotkeysrc on the second attempt, yet it still will not actually work without manually enabling it in khotkeysrc due to this as yet unaddressed bug...
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198155
Comment 1 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 18:18:36 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 198155 ***
Comment 2 IgnorantGuru 2009-11-23 18:37:54 UTC
FYI, this is NOT a duplicate of bug 198155.  Read the bugs carefully.  This bug only affects adding a new item, whereas the other affected existing items.

I can confirm this bug is still present in the Kubuntu Karmic final release with the classic menu, whereas bug 198155 has indeed been fixed.  If you're just going to mark bugs RESOLVED when they're not, you're not really doing much good.
Comment 3 Will Stephenson 2009-11-23 19:20:18 UTC
Thanks for the extra info.  There /is/ a race condition between creating the .desktop file for the new entry, running kbuildsycoca and telling kglobalaccel about the new shortcut.

And hey - I just triaged 130 of these suckers, I'm going to make the odd mistake.
Comment 4 IgnorantGuru 2009-11-23 19:46:56 UTC
Thanks for correcting it.  I understand an occassional mistake, but I've had very poor results reporting bugs lately and having them addressed instead of just shuffled and eventually ignored, so it gets frustrating.  I've actually just dropped using KDE, at least on my primary system, due largely to the bugs and bug handling.  So I may not be able to advise you further on this bug as much.  But I do maintain one more KDE system so if it's changed in the main Kubuntu updates I can check it for you.
Comment 5 Jekyll Wu 2012-07-30 12:47:20 UTC
The problem still exists in KDE SC 4.9