Bug 368882 - Alt+[char] keyboard shortcut precedence
Summary: Alt+[char] keyboard shortcut precedence
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: bars: location (show other bugs)
Version: 16.12.2
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
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Reported: 2016-09-16 07:20 UTC by Petr Bartos
Modified: 2017-09-02 20:43 UTC (History)
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Description Petr Bartos 2016-09-16 07:20:45 UTC
Hi,
for some time (since early versions of kde4) I have remapped shortcut for edit location in Dolphin to Alt+D (instead of Ctrl+L) to match shortcut in web browsers. However in recent versions this shortcut is blocked in case path contains folder beginning with "D" - it shows dialog about ambiguous shortcut and nothing happens.

I noticed that Alt+[char] now by default opens popup menu with subdirectories of folder beginning with [char]. I don't know how long is there this functionality, but I think it should not collide with explicitly defined shortcuts.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2017-09-02 20:43:04 UTC
Confirmed the issue. But I'm not sure this is really fixable; in general, using the Alt key as the only modifier for a shortcut is dangerous because it risks collision with menu accelerators. Or other hidden functions, as you've discovered. I don't think we have a sane way to fix this.

FWIW, all modern web browsers use Ctrl+L to focus on the URL field.